Sixteen young Seychellois have won their places in two one-week camps to increase their knowledge of the ecosystem of one of Seychelles' outer islands, D'Arros, home to the Save Our Seas Foundation's Research Centre (SOSF-DRC). Aged 10 to 15 years, the adolescents are winners of the D'Arros Experience Competition for school children launched last year. The [...]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for a ceasefire of "at least three days" in Sudan over Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. "We are living a very important moment in the Muslim calendar. I think this is the right moment for a ceasefire to hold," Guterres [...]
The Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF) have intercepted a Madagascar-flagged fishing vessel suspected of conducting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the island nation's waters. According to a press release from the SDF on Friday, the operation was carried out in a joint effort involving the Seychelles Coast Guard, Air Force, and Special Forces. SDF [...]
Seychelles' finance ministry has set up a customer feedback service to allow more interaction with its budget dependent entities such as the Procurement Oversight Unit Seychelles (POU) and the National Tender Board. The principal information and communications officer, Lindy Vital, explained the new mechanism to the press on Wednesday morning. Other entities under the ministry affected [...]
Seychelles' economy grew by 8.4 percent in 2022, according to the annual report of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS). "Preliminary estimations show that Seychelles economy did well in 2022, which was a result of the good performance of the tourism sector, despite concerns early in the year with regards to the impact of Russia's [...]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday pressed NATO to invite Kyiv to join the alliance and send more fighter jets and long-range weapons, as battles with Russia raged on in the east of the country. Zelensky spoke during a visit to Kyiv by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg -- his first since the start of [...]
One of Seychelles' telecommunication companies, Intelvision, landed the third submarine cable system in the country on Thursday, a venture that will allow the company to provide its clients with more competitive internet prices. Collaborating with Vodafone in landing the 2Africa cable system, Intelvision is the first privately owned telecommunication company to venture into the installation and [...]
Seychelles' Cabinet of Ministers has given its approval for the island nation to host the 19th annual Indian Ocean colloquium on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and Addictology from 13-15 November. The statement was made by Vice President Ahmed Afif in a press briefing on the Cabinet decisions on Thursday. "It is a group that Seychelles is part of [...]
The screeching artillery shells crashing down from Russian positions in the embattled and rubble-strewn city of Bakhmut in east Ukraine shake 20-year-old sapper Denis the most. "You hear a boom, a whistle and then an explosion. And of course the shrapnel," the military engineer told AFP, just hours after rotating from the fiercest battle of [...]
French President Emmanuel Macron was loudly booed by crowds in eastern France on Wednesday as he embarked on his first trip out of Paris since signing his unpopular pensions reform into law. Macron had been encouraged by allies to get out and meet voters after signing the reform following months of protests, with some fearing [...]
