A 14-year-old Seychellois windsurfer, Jules Kandasamy, is representing Seychelles at the 2023 PWA Youth & Junior Slalom World Cup, taking place in Alacati, Turkey from October 3 to 8. Kandasamy will be competing at the tournament for the second time and is aiming to do better this time around. "Last year, it was tough, and I [...]
Pope Francis opens a major congress on the future of the Catholic Church Wednesday marked by tensions with conservatives on issues such as the treatment of divorcees and LGBTQ believers. The assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place over four weeks in Rome, in the wake of an unprecedented two-year global consultation that [...]
The European Union (EU) plans to continue working with Seychelles in maritime security, climate change and tourism, the newly accredited EU ambassador to Mauritius and Seychelles. Oskar Benedikt presented his credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House on Tuesday. The EU is one of Seychelles' main partners in the fields of political, economic, and trade [...]
DR Congo's Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynaecologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced on Monday that he will stand for president in elections planned for December. Speaking to a packed auditorium in the central African nation's capital Kinshasa, the doctor told reporters he wanted to save a country riven by insecurity and poor leadership. "Our [...]
Seychelles basketball league champions, Beau Vallon Heat, will compete in the Elite 16 round of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) with the aim to seek a spot in Africa's premier basketball tournament. The Seychelles side is participating for the second time in the tournament that will take place in Madagascar, from October 3-7. Beau Vallon [...]
The UN's health agency on Monday recommended a second malaria vaccine for children, which could save hundreds of thousands of lives by plugging a huge supply and demand gap. Nearly half a million children in the African region die every year from the disease, which is caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes. "As a [...]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff-level agreement with Seychelles on the first review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF). This followed an IMF mission in Seychelles led by the mission chief, Todd Schneider, where discussions were held with authorities from September 21 to October [...]
In 2018, in a move to underscore the importance of the Seychelles' Aldabra giant tortoises and shed light on the plight of the species, a group of conservationists and philanthropists set up an Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance (IOTA). The alliance, which was initiated at the recent Paris Peace Conference, is an inclusive, Seychelles-anchored non-profit organisation [...]
The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a Kenyan-led mission aiming to bring stability to Haiti, a year after leaders in the violence-ravaged Caribbean nation first pleaded for help. The Western Hemisphere's poorest nation has been in freefall, with armed gangs taking over parts of the country and unleashing brutal violence, and the economy [...]
The European Union signalled its long-term support for Ukraine on Monday as its foreign ministers convened in the capital Kyiv for a historic first gathering outside the bloc's borders. The meeting comes as disagreements grow among EU members over support for Ukraine and as Kyiv's forces make limited gains in a high-stakes counteroffensive against Russian [...]
