Seychelles' Ministry of Environment is awaiting the completion of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) before a final decision can be taken on the construction of the Reef Hotel project, said a top official on Tuesday. The statement was made by the Minister for Environment, Flavien Joubert, when answering a question in the National Assembly brought [...]
A United States drone strike killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri at a hideout in Kabul, President Joe Biden said Monday, declaring that "justice had been delivered" to the families of the 9/11 attacks. Zawahiri's assassination is the biggest blow to Al-Qaeda since US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, and calls into question [...]
Seychelles is aiming to increase its number of exclusively breastfed babies to 50 percent by the year 2025, said a health official at the launch of the Breastfeeding Week on Monday. World Breastfeeding Week 2022 is being held under the theme "Step up for Breastfeeding - Educate and Support" from August 1-7. The event has been [...]
Seychelles has surpassed the total number of visitor arrivals for the whole of 202, well on the path to the recovery of its tourism industry in the seventh month of 2022, Tourism Seychelles – the marketing arm of the Department of Tourism – said on Friday. The 182,850th traveller landed in the island nation on Wednesday, July 27, making [...]
Seychelles has surpassed the total number of visitor arrivals for the whole of 202, well on the path to the recovery of its tourism industry in the seventh month of 2022, Tourism Seychelles – the marketing arm of the Department of Tourism – said on Friday. The 182,850th traveller landed in the island nation on Wednesday, July 27, making [...]
Three Seychellois artists and one from Mauritius were rewarded for their outstanding work at the launch of the Seychelles Biennale of Contemporary Arts on Sunday. Forty-four artists from 19 different countries, including Seychelles, are participating part in this year's edition of the Seychelles Biennale of Contemporary Art, which is taking place from July 31 - [...]
The largest fire in California this year is forcing thousands of people to evacuate as it destroys homes and rips through the state's dry terrain, whipped up on Sunday by strong winds and lightning storms. The McKinney Fire was zero percent contained as it burned in Klamath National Forest in northern California, CalFire said, spreading [...]
Powerful Iraqi Shiite preacher Moqtada Sadr Sunday urged other factions to support a protest that has seen his followers occupy parliament in a dispute over who should name the next prime minister. Nearly 10 months after elections, the oil-rich country is still without a new government due to the repeated failure of negotiations and the [...]
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, accepted a £1 million ($1.19 million, 1.21 million euro) donation to his charitable trust from the family of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, The Sunday Times reported. Although there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by the Saudi family members, the revelation increases scrutiny on the 73-year-old [...]
Seychellois-Belgian model Anicca Van Hollebeke has launched a new swimwear collection inspired by Seychelles, her country of birth. Named 'Koko Swim', the collection was launched on June 25 in a private ceremony in Belgium with the swimwear team, family and friends. "It was a great pleasure and achievement for me to be able to launch my [...]
