European Union leaders meet Sunday to approve a historic Brexit deal, which British Prime Minister Theresa May said would deliver her country a "brighter future". At a special summit in Brussels that was almost derailed by a row over Gibraltar, the other 27 leaders will gather to sign off the agreement before May joins them [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, will be attending the first ever global high-level conference on the sustainable blue economy in Nairobi, Kenya, State House said on Friday. Faure is attending the conference taking place from November 26-28 at the invitation of the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. The overarching theme of the conference is ‘the blue [...]
Sri Lanka's deposed prime minister in a tight grip on a key committee in parliament Friday, dealing with a blow to the country's president in the latest twist in a month-long political crisis. Sri Lanka has been politically paralyzed since October 26 when President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Ranil Wickremesinghe as first and replaced him with [...]
Climate change is affecting the Seychelles’ economic development and is having a direct impact on the livelihood of the Islanders, said a top government official on Wednesday. Wills Agricole, the principal secretary of the climate change department, was speaking at a one-day workshop organised on Tuesday at Savoy Resort and Spa in Seychelles under the [...]
The world is not moving fast enough to curb global warming and needs immediate action to address the issue, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an online climate change conference Thursday. Guterres issued the call to arms ahead of next month's COP24 climate talks in the southern Polish city of Katowice, which will attempt to revive [...]
Nissan's board sacked Carlos Ghosn as chairman on Thursday, a spectacular fall from grace for the once-revered boss whose arrest for financial misconduct has stunned the business world, as France and Japan insisted they want the Nissan-Renault alliance to survive the scandal. Ghosn, in jail since Monday, stands accused of under-reporting his income by millions [...]
Seychelles and the French military from Nov. 19-23 are carrying out a military exercise centred on the fight against trafficking illicit drugs, a military spokesperson said. Around 125 military personnel from the Seychelles People’s Defence Forces (SPDF) and the French armed forces based in the south of the Indian Ocean are participating in the 2018 [...]
A Seychellois author and songwriter -- David Andre -- has produced the anthem for the United Cities and Local United Cities and Local Governments of Africa. The anthem was presented on Tuesday at the opening of the 8th Africities summit taking place in Marrakesh, Morocco from November 20 to 24. Andre, who is the Mayor [...]
Negotiations to secure an orderly Brexit deal will go down to the wire after Theresa May said she would return to Brussels for more talks on the eve of a planned signing summit. After an inconclusive trip to Brussels to meet EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker, the British prime minister said she would return on Saturday [...]
Sunday, November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The theme for this year is Orange the World: #HearMeToo. Seychelles will join the rest to the world to mark the day. A report released earlier this year stated that violence against women and girls in Seychelles is costing the country [...]