Seychelles' Cabinet of Ministers has approved a one-year-long memorandum of agreement to be signed with Sri Lanka's Colombo International Nautical Engineering College (CINEC) pending the drafting of another revised, more detailed, long-term agreement. The agreement will allow CINEC and the Seychelles Maritime Academy (SMA) to continue to maintain and enhance the existing framework for academic [...]
Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip traded missile fire Friday, raising fears of a further escalation after one the deadliest army raids in the occupied West Bank in years. Israel said in response to the missiles, it "targeted an underground rocket manufacturing site" belonging to Hamas and a north Gaza military base used [...]
Seychelles has been ranked second in the Overall Governance category of the newly released Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance for 2022. The island nation in the western Indian Ocean scored 73.4 out of a possible 100 points in the category and came behind Mauritius with 74.9 out of 100. At the other end of [...]
US President Joe Biden -- who has not yet announced any plans to run for reelection, though he's openly considering another campaign -- will attend two Democratic fundraising events next week, a party source told AFP. Biden will head to New York on Tuesday and Philadelphia on Friday to meet with wealthy supporters, hoping to [...]
Some sea cucumber species appear to be resilient to heavy fishing pressure while others show clear signs of over-exploitation according to a recently published 2021/2022 survey by the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA). According to a press release from the SFA on Tuesday, the survey was completed in October 2022 and about 200 of the original sites surveyed [...]
France said on Thursday that it was recalling its ambassador from Burkina Faso, a day after agreeing to demands from the ruling junta to pull out troops from the former French colony in Africa's Sahel region. "In the context of the latest developments in Burkina Faso, we have decided to recall our ambassador to Paris [...]
Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan next week, delivering a message of peace and reconciliation to two sub-Saharan African nations plagued by conflict. The 86-year-old pontiff is flying to the Congolese capital Kinshasa on Tuesday before heading Friday to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, where he will be [...]
The Magistrates' Court of Seychelles has approved an order by the police to carry out an autopsy on a 17-month-old baby who died last Saturday. The police said in a press communique on Monday that an investigation has started in an incident in which a 17-month-old Russian baby, Emelyan Jandurl, died after being left alone [...]
The Magistrates' Court of Seychelles has approved an order by the police to carry out an autopsy on a 17-month-old baby who died last Saturday. The police said in a press communique on Monday that an investigation has started in an incident in which a 17-month-old Russian baby, Emelyan Jandurl, died after being left alone [...]
Key priority projects in housing, sports and health in Seychelles have been approved as part of efforts to consolidate diplomatic relations between the island nation and the United Arab Emirates, State House said on Wednesday. The projects include the Barbarons Housing project Phase 2 and 3, comprising around 80 new housing units. The housing project [...]