Four Seychelles-based businesses will take part in the first edition of the BlueInvest Africa Forum, a European Union initiative to promote the Blue Economy, that will take place in Seychelles on September 6-8. The event will be held under the patronage of Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalwan, who was named as one of the two patrons [...]
Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday arrived in Bangkok after his visa ran out following a month-long stint in Singapore where he had taken refuge from protesters at home. The deposed leader landed on a private jet at Don Mueang International Airport around 8pm local time (1200 GMT), a senior Thai official said. [...]
Donald Trump arrived for questioning under oath Wednesday in the New York state attorney general's civil probe into alleged fraud at the former US president's family business. Trump said on social media he was in the offices of New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose investigation is one of several active probes into the brash [...]
Kenyans on Wednesday were waiting for the results of the country's presidential election after a largely peaceful poll, with preliminary results suggesting a tight race while low turnout pointed to growing frustration with the political elite. Deputy President William Ruto and Raila Odinga, the veteran opposition leader now backed by the ruling party, have vowed [...]
Seychelles saw a 71.6 percent increase in the arrival of yachts in 2021 compared to 2020, when the island nation was greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, an official of the Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA) said recently. The SPA's director for business development, Vincent Didon, told SNA that in 2021, 91 yachts, including superyachts, visited Seychelles while [...]
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) will support 47 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in African countries including Seychelles with their COVID-19 roll-out activities through an agreement with the Africa Centre for Disease Control. The statement was made by the head of the country cluster delegation for the Indian Ocean [...]
At the end of a dusty track in southwest England where the River Thames usually first emerges from the ground, there is currently scant sign of any moisture at all. The driest start to a year in decades has shifted the source of this emblematic English river several miles downstream, leaving scorched earth and the [...]
Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam champion and iconic tennis superstar for a generation, said Tuesday that "the countdown has begun" to her retirement from the sport. The 40-year-old American wrote a cover essay for Vogue magazine and an Instagram post in which she set the stage for "evolving away from tennis." "There comes a [...]
The Truth, Reconciliation, and National Unity Commission (TRNUC) in Seychelles was set up in 2018 to work on settling past political divisions and grievances that were a result of the coup d'état in Seychelles on June 5, 1977, as well as other human rights abuses from then until recent history. TRNUC's mandate is coming to an end [...]
The need for small island states to join together to defend their interests at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt was a message sent by Comoran President Azali Assoumani to his Seychelles counterpart, Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday. The message was delivered by Hamada Madi, a special envoy from Comoros. Madi told [...]
