Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and President Danny Faure of Seychelles met on Monday as Sirisena and his delegation kicked off a three-day official visit. Commerce, tourism, health and education are areas that the two island nations have agreed to develop further, Vice President Vincent Meriton of Seychelles said after the meeting. “We have the [...]
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday he believed North Korea's Kim Jong Un would soon meet with the leaders of China and Russia as part of an ongoing diplomatic effort to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula. It comes a day after the North Korean leader agreed to hold a second summit with US [...]
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in Seychelles on Monday on a three-day official visit following an invitation from President Danny Faure during his visit to Sri Lanka last year. Sirisena is the second Sri Lankan President to visit the island nation in the western Indian Ocean in the last five years. The President’s visit [...]
A strong aftershock sent panicked residents fleeing into the streets on Sunday -- hours after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake killed at least 12 people along Haiti's northwest coast. AFP journalists in the Caribbean nation of 11 million reported strong shaking, felt around the coastal city of Port-de-Paix. It was not immediately clear if it had done [...]
The Indian community in Seychelles is joining with locals and visitors this weekend to celebrate the 6th Seychelles-India Day -- an event which recognises one of the key historical origins that helped create the Creole nation. The Seychelles-India Day, a tradition since 2013, highlights the Seychelles-Indian origin and the Indian Culture in a weekend of activities [...]
Russia and India's leaders announced on Friday a raft of deals worth billions of dollars including for a military defence system, as New Delhi walks a tightrope between Moscow and Washington with a wary eye on China. The flagship accord announced during a visit to India by President Vladimir Putin was for the formidable S-400 [...]
The Seychelles’ Ministry of Environment has described as alarming the rate by which a new algae is spreading and threatening the island nation's marine life, an issue the tourism industry is keeping a worried and wary eye on. The algae confirmed as a species in the genus of hypnea, has never been recorded in the island [...]
Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The pair won the award "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict," Nobel committee chairwoman [...]
Air Seychelles and Air India are now offering travellers enhanced connections on their respective networks following the signing of a codeshare agreement between the two airlines on Thursday. The Seychelles’ national airline said that under the agreement, Air India will place its "AI" code on Air Seychelles regional services between Mumbai to Seychelles and Johannesburg. In return, [...]
The #MeToo campaign has given mostly Western women confidence to speak up about violence at the hands of men, but in Africa women say stigma and victim-blaming still keep many silent. Fiercely patriarchal societies and religious and traditional views on the role of women means even complaining about domestic violence is an uphill battle, let [...]