The prawn farm project on Seychelles' Coetivy island being undertaken by the state-owned Islands Development Company (IDC) is going well, said a top official on Wednesday. The first batch of prawns brought to island late last year is expected to be ready for harvest by early April as was originally planned, but the biggest success [...]
In view of ongoing challenges, redeem centres for glass bottles and aluminium cans in Seychelles will be back in operation on March 20, a little later than usual, said a top government official on Tuesday. There are six main redeem centres in Seychelles where collectors deposit their cans and PET bottles. Four are on Mahe, [...]
Top environmental officials in Seychelles are urging local partners to consider new projects to safely dispose of chemical waste as more than part of their jobs as the outcome is far-reaching. The Minister of Environment, Flavien Joubert, made the appeal in his address at the official launching of the "Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development [...]
Malawi's president appealed Wednesday for global support to tackle "a national tragedy" after Cyclone Freddy pummelled the southeast African nation, causing flooding and mudslides that have killed hundreds. The storm returned to the African coast at the weekend for a second time in less than three weeks, leaving a trail of death and destruction, but [...]
The Seychelles' cabinet of ministers has given its approval for the Ministry of Finance to start negotiations for a new Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the country's Vice President on Thursday. Vice President Ahmed Afif made the statement in a briefing on the cabinet decisions with reporters. Afif said [...]
Moscow said Wednesday it would try to retrieve the wreckage of a US military drone that crashed over the Black Sea in a confrontation Washington blamed on two Russian fighter jets. Russia also warned that it would react "proportionately" to any future US "provocations" as tensions simmered and Moscow denied its Su-27 military aircraft had [...]
The two leaders in the Seychelles National Assembly on Tuesday responded to President Wavel Ramkalawan's State of the Nation Address. Sebastien Pillay, the Leader of the Opposition, said the President did not give the real state of the nation. "This kind of State of the Nation address has no place in an evolving democracy and [...]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday urged Ethiopia to "deepen the peace" in the war-torn north as he moved cautiously to repair relations shaken by the brutal two-way conflict. The top US diplomat was paying his first visit to the longstanding ally since the war in Tigray, which claimed some 500,000 lives according [...]
The death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying migrants from Madagascar to the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte has risen to 34, authorities said on Tuesday. The boat, which was carrying about 60 passengers, sank off the island's northern coast on Saturday night. Initial reports on Monday put the death toll at [...]
Wrongly classified mosquito larvae in Seychelles have now been rightly attributed to a new species after an entomologist and his team analysed new samples through the use of genetic sequencing. According to an article in a scientific report in the International Journal of Entomology published this year, the mosquito, endemic to Aldabra Atoll, now carries the scientific name Aedes [...]
