Survivors of Cyclone Freddy clung to dwindling hopes of finding missing relatives on Tuesday after the storm slammed into Malawi for its second strike on Africa in a record-setting rampage. Ninety-nine people have died in the impoverished country since Freddy smashed into southern Africa at the weekend, just weeks after it made a deadly hit [...]
The newly accredited Ambassador of the Philippines to Seychelles seeks to improve people-to-people relations between the two countries while the newly accredited High Commissioner of Canada eyes two-way trade and investment as areas to focus on. Marie Tang, the Philippines ambassador, and Kyle Nunas, the Canadian high commissioner, spoke to the press about their areas of focus [...]
Seychelles is the first African country to accept the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies as it deposited its instrument of acceptance to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on March 10. The deposition of the instrument also makes Seychelles the third WTO member country to do so. The agreement prohibits certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to [...]
Charles III on Monday attended his first Commonwealth Day service as king, issuing a call for unity to tackle the globe's most pressing issues. The 74-year-old monarch heads the 56-nation grouping, which accounts for 2.6 billion people or approximately one third of the world's population. He led senior royals and representatives from member states at [...]
Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of interviews, one of which triggered a diplomatic spat with Nicaragua. "It seems like yesterday," the 86-year-old recalled of his election during a podcast for the official Vatican News outlet -- after first [...]
With the aim of becoming more efficient in the management of the Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority (SPGA), the organisation as well as other government institutions have embarked on an online ArcGIS Pro course, a top official said on Monday. ArcGIS Pro is a full-featured professional desktop Geographical Information Systems (GIS) application and the local training is [...]
Xi Jinping was unanimously elected Chinese president on Friday at the ongoing session of China's national legislature, leading the country of 1.4 billion people onto a new journey toward modernisation. He was also elected chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) by a unanimous vote. A total of [...]
Environmental NGO Nature Seychelles has successfully completed the testing of a prototype device that will be used to monitor turtle nests in the future, said a top official. The device, called 'Nest', is being developed in collaboration with American based company, Ocean Lab. It will be able to monitor the nest's internal temperature, sea level [...]
The Ukrainian military was preparing Sunday for an upcoming counteroffensive, with a top commander saying his forces' ongoing defence of Bakhmut in the face of fierce and sustained Russian attacks was necessary to "buy time" for that push. The remarks came as British intelligence said the frontline had shifted in the fight for Bakhmut -- [...]
Nearly 130,000 people in the Greater Horn of Africa are "staring death in the eyes" from catastrophic hunger, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday. Some 48 million people in the Greater Horn -- Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda -- are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, the WHO said. That [...]
