The plight and vulnerability of Seychelles as a small island state were the focus of President Wavel Ramkalawan’s intervention on the high level round table at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27). The theme of the round table was "Climate change and the sustainability of vulnerable communities." State House said in a press statement [...]
Global spending on food imports is expected to reach a record $1.94 trillion in 2022, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization warned Friday, a 10 percent jump compared to the previous year due to rising prices. The new forecast would mark "an all-time high", and is due to the depreciating values of currencies against the [...]
The Ethiopian government said Friday its forces controlled 70 percent of the war-stricken northern region of Tigray and that aid was being sent in -- claims swiftly denied by Tigrayan rebels. The restoration of desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the region is one of the key planks of a peace deal between the federal government [...]
The quality of services provided to airlines travelling in the airspace Seychelles controls will receive a significant boost by the end of 2023 as the island nation undertakes a major air traffic system modernisation. The Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) said in a press release on Thursday that it is undertaking a project to provide [...]
Seychelles will use the results of a study that concluded in 2019 to address the cost of violence against women and girls while a Domestic Violence Act passed in the National Assembly is expected to come into force soon. The study, which began in 2017 came after the Seychelles government asked the Commonwealth for assistance to carry out a study to determine [...]
The two leaders in the Seychelles National Assembly gave their responses on Thursday to the 2023 budget presented by the finance minister, Naadir Hassan, last week. Hassan is seeking the approval of the National Assembly for a proposed budget of SCR10.4 billion ($816.4 million) for 2023. In his response the Leader of the Opposition, Sebastien [...]
Americans impatiently awaited the final outcome of the US midterm elections on Thursday, as President Joe Biden celebrated what he said was his party's success in fending off a Republican "red wave." "It didn't happen," the 79-year-old Biden said at a news conference Wednesday in his first speech since the polls closed. "It was a [...]
High-level talks on scaling up finance for developing countries to green their economies and prepare for global warming impacts began Wednesday at the COP27 climate conference with negotiators differing on the funding's size and providers. In 2009, the chaotic UN climate summit in Copenhagen saw rich nations promise $100 billion a year by 2020 to [...]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is setting up a special fund in which Seychelles will have access to loans at concessionary rates, said the managing director and chair of the IMF executive board, Kristalina Georgieva, in a meeting with President Wavel Ramkalawan on Wednesday. The meeting was held on the margins of the 27th Conference of the [...]
Seychelles' Port Victoria welcomed on Wednesday a second cruise ship, MSC Orchestra, since the opening of the 2022/2023 season in mid-October. With the lifting and relaxing of restriction measures by the Public Health Authority (PHA), the vessel arrived with 1,642 passengers and 800 crew, although its total capacity is 3,100. The cruise ship has an overall length of [...]