Representatives from the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), the fisheries ministry and the private sector have started discussions on draft protocol for experimental fisheries that will support fish exports from the island nation During the half-day workshop on Thursday, stakeholders gave their inputs on developments they would like to see take place. It was also an opportunity for [...]
The Seychelles' National Assembly has approved the setting up of a technical committee by the Electoral Commission to advise and assist in the task of reviewing electoral boundaries. Eighteen members of the ruling Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) party voted for the proposed Elections (Amendment) Bill 2022 on Wednesday, in the absence of the members of the United [...]
Renovation works are underway at Seychelles' national stadium, Stad Linite, to resurface the tartan track, said a top official of the National Sports Council (NSC). Details on the work being done by the NSC along with the Seychelles Infrastructure Agency (SIA) and the Seychelles Football Federation (SFF), were given in a press conference on Tuesday. [...]
Hempstone Monari's taxi business was just getting going when the wheels fell off his financial future and a Kenyan bank auctioned off his car over the non-payment of a $9,900 loan. "They took my car even though business was slow," the 29-year-old told AFP, his eyes red from tear gas and several days' stubble on [...]
It had not rained properly for months but the floods kept coming, inching up the mud-earth fortifications that stood between Bentiu's marooned and starving people and the endless water beyond. Four straight years of flooding, an unprecedented phenomenon linked to climate change, has swamped two-thirds of South Sudan but nowhere more dramatically than Bentiu, a [...]
Seychelles' Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission (TRNUC) will complete its mandate on March 31st in conformity with the second extension granted at the end of last year, said the Commission in a press statement on Thursday. The Commission said that on that date, all 247 case determinations that had not been filed before President [...]
Britain's former prime minister Boris Johnson re-enters the bear pit of parliamentary inquisition on Wednesday for a grilling about "Partygate" that could decide his political future. In July, the end of Johnson's three years in 10 Downing Street played out in another parliamentary committee hearing, while outside the room his government was collapsing in a [...]
Seychelles is set to become a pilot country to benefit from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) newly launched Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), announced the mission chief for the island nation on Tuesday. Initiated in October 2022, the Resilience and Sustainability Facility provides affordable long-term financing to countries undertaking reforms to reduce risks to prospective balance of [...]
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the country would organise the next national elections by universal suffrage, a departure from an indirect voting system that has often triggered crises. The fragile Horn of Africa nation has not held a one-person, one-vote election in more than 50 years. Instead, polls follow a complex indirect model, where [...]
The World Bank is keen to open an office in the Seychelles by the end of 2023, a top official said on Tuesday. The bank's country director, Ida Pswarayi-Riddihough, made the statement to reporters after meeting with Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan. "We are looking to start obviously very small but it will help us [...]