Angola's Joao Lourenco was set to remain president Thursday, as his party maintained its lead in the country's most hotly contested election in its democratic history, with nearly all the votes counted.Results published by the country's electoral commission gave the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 51.07 percent of the vote with more [...]
The Anti-Corruption Commission Seychelles (ACCS) has announced that its investigation ‘Project Black Iron’ relating to the theft of a $50 million loan given by the government of Abu Dhabi to the government of Seychelles, has led to the first asset seizure following an interim order issued on August 23 by Judge Mohan Burhan of the [...]
The World Health Organization announced Thursday that a million people had died from Covid-19 in 2022, calling it a "tragic milestone" when all the tools existed to prevent deaths. Nearly 6.45 million deaths have been reported to the WHO since the virus was first detected in China in late 2019. But WHO chief Tedros Adhanom [...]
Seychelles’ economy remains in a fragile state, despite positive performance in the tourism sector, said a top official on Thursday. With tourism arrivals for the year now surpassing the 200,000 mark, economic activity is improving but remains in a fragile state as global factors continue to have an impact on the island nation. During a [...]
A newly established circular business in Seychelles, Brikole, on Wednesday sent out its first shipment of exhausted fishing nets to Europe for recycling, removing 50 tonnes of material from the Seychelles Fishing Authority's (SFA) net yard. For many years, the yard, located at Ile Du Port Zone 14, had become the final destination of the [...]
China's autumn harvest is under "severe threat" from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, promising Wednesday fresh steps to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record. The world's second-largest economy has been hit by record heat, flash floods and droughts this summer -- phenomena that scientists say are becoming [...]
President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Wednesday that Ukraine will resist the Russian invasion "until the end" without "any concession or compromise", as the nation marks its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war. "We don't care what army you have, we only care about our land," Zelensky said [...]
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, is heading for Tunis on Thursday to attend the eighth meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 8), taking place from August 27- 28. According to a press statement from State House, President Ramkalawan will join the gathering of “high-level delegations from African countries, Japan as [...]
A Sri Lankan national, previously convicted before the Supreme Court of Seychelles for illegal fishing, has won his case before the Court of Appeal and been ordered to pay a reduced fine of SCR400,000 ($32,000) after the judgement for his case was delivered on August 19. The captain of a Sri Lankan-flagged vessel, Mahalingam Kanapathi, [...]
Authorities in Seychelles are working to revamp the national aquaculture policy by the end of this year and review regulations early next year. The head of the aquaculture department at the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Aubrey Lesperance, made the announcement in an interview with the press following the opening ceremony of a workshop to review [...]