The Sudanese capital was again under fire Wednesday, after the latest breached ceasefire between warring generals ended without any sign of an end to more than two months of war. An immense fire had already engulfed the intelligence service's headquarters in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday evening, with each side accusing the other of attacking [...]
Beach Soccer enthusiasts will be able to enjoy their favourite sport in a three-nation tournament as part of the activities to celebrate the Seychelles National Day on June 29, said the local football federation. The nations participating in the six-day tournament are Seychelles, Burundi and Madagascar. The competition will start on June 23 and the [...]
Dozens of global leaders will gather in Paris Thursday for a summit to tease out a new consensus on international economic reforms to help debt-burdened developing countries face a growing onslaught of challenges, particularly climate change. French President Emmanuel Macron has said the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact is aimed at finding the [...]
A stronger Seychelles rupee contributing towards a decline in inflation locally, is one factor that has allowed the board of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) to maintain the Monetary Policy Rate at 2 percent for the third quarter of 2023. According to CBS, in May 2023, the year-on-year inflation had gone down by 1.0 percent, while the [...]
The Indian High Commission in Seychelles will not be charging emergency fees for medical visas issued to Seychellois travelling for emergency treatment in India as of June 21. The statement was made by the Indian High Commission in a press communique on Tuesday. "Seychellois requiring Emergency Medical Visa will have to however produce an emergency certificate from [...]
Rescuers using sonar to search for the missing Titanic submersible with five people onboard detected "underwater noises" in the North Atlantic near where the craft vanished two days earlier, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday. "Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area. As a result, ROV (remotely operated vehicle) operations were relocated [...]
Investors are being called upon to submit their concept proposals for the Victoria Waterfront development project as the Seychelles Investment Board (SIB) launches the expression of interest for the project. Aimed at making the capital of Seychelles - Victoria - livelier, the Waterfront Development project is part of the approved Victoria Masterplan 2040. It is to [...]
Seychelles has been upgraded to Tier 1 on the 23rd annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report released by the United States Department of State last week. The TIP report assesses the anti-trafficking efforts of 188 governments around the world, including Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean. Tier 1 on the TIP means fully compliant with the minimum [...]
The head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi said on Tuesday that the number of people who have fled the fighting in Sudan was now more than 500,000 while two million are internally displaced. "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan following the beginning of the conflict," he said [...]
Seychelles' public health system is well on its way to digitising its services and the project has now entered it's second phase, said a top health official. The chief executive of the Health Care Agency (HSA), Danny Louange, said that the original plan was to set up the health information system but "we are looking at something [...]