Liverpool star Sadio Mane converted a shoot-out penalty on Tuesday to take African champions Senegal to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar at the expense of Egypt. Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco and Tunisia also booked their places in the finals on a frantic night of play-off action. Senegal won the second leg of the African play-off [...]
Russia's widespread and indiscriminate attacks in Ukraine are of "immense concern", the UN rights chief said Wednesday, warning that they could amount to "war crimes". Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet said that the entire population of Ukraine had been "enduring a living nightmare" since Russia launched its full-scale invasion [...]
Fishermen in Seychelles are being encouraged to take initiatives that will help protect fish stocks instead of waiting for the government to come up with programmes, the island state's fisheries minister said on Tuesday. Jean-Francois Ferrari made the statement to students at Mont Fleuri secondary school during a presentation on the success of the first [...]
Many commitments have been made but the reality remains that more needs to be done to fulfil climate finance commitments, Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan said in a panel session at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Ramkalawan was a speaker during the Global Energy Forum where he was a panellist in a discussion entitled 'The [...]
The Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) is urging Seychellois who are interested in sustainable fisheries activities to come forward to access funding under the Blue Investment Fund, said a top DBS official. The Blue Investment Fund (BIF) was launched in 2019 to support the expansion of sustainable fisheries in Seychelles. It is open to all [...]
France's leading TV channel always devotes an entire evening to dissecting the first-round results of the presidential vote. But not this year. Instead, it will cut off early to show a clownish cult comedy from 1993. The decision to rebroadcast the surefire hit "The Visitors" saw TF1 accused of deepening a democratic deficit, but it [...]
A Russian strike battered the regional government building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, a key port under heavy assault for weeks, the regional governor said on Tuesday. "The regional administration building was hit," governor Vitaly Kim wrote on Facebook. He said that most people inside the building had not been injured but several [...]
Ox carts as a means of transportation on Seychelles' La Digue island are slowly dying out amid the introduction of more modern means of travel. The ox cart - a two-wheel transport pulled by a cow – has traditionally been the mode of transport on La Digue for many visitors along with bicycles but its [...]
The organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) in Seychelles has launched a campaign to promote respect, equal treatment and acceptance. Called 'Viv, Lanmour, Respe' - Creole for live, love, respect - the campaign was launched on March 25 as a series of public service announcements that are being aired on television channels [...]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the top diplomats of Israel and four Arab states held a landmark meeting Monday to discuss issues from the Iran nuclear negotiations to the global shockwaves of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The talks brought together for the first time on Israeli soil the foreign ministers of the United [...]
