Sustainable solutions are needed to address extreme weather conditions and sea-level rise, which threaten livelihoods and survival of low-lying islands, the President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkawalan, said at the One Ocean Summit taking place in Brest, France. Ramkalawan, who attended the summit at the invitation of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, made his intervention [...]
US President Joe Biden and France's Emmanuel Macron prepared to sound out Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday and Ukraine urged its citizens not to panic after Washington warned that an all-out invasion could begin "any day". Weeks of tensions that have seen Russia surround its western neighbour with more than 100,000 troops revved up another [...]
The second princess in the Miss Seychelles National Pageant 2020, Elsia Françoise, will be the island nation's first participant at the Miss Environment International Pageant in March. The pageant will take place in Mumbai from March 21 to April 2. The 19-year-old, who is presently studying general management at the Guy Morel Institute, was crowned second [...]
Seychelles is seeking investors to build a modular floating dry dock that will allow for the repair and renovation of larger vessels, a high government official said on Thursday. Transport minister Anthony Derjacques visited the planned construction site at Ile Perseverance – a man-made island – and said that the building of a floating dry [...]
Television programmes made in Seychelles in the Creole language are now available globally following the launch of Kreoflix on January 23. A monthly subscription to the online platform kreoflix.com gives unlimited access to locally made content ranging from film entertainment and documentaries to talk shows and games. Programmes are mainly in Creole, the mother tongue of Seychelles, with elements [...]
Religious police in northern Nigeria's city of Kano have destroyed nearly four milllion bottles of beer, on grounds that sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the predominantly Muslim region. Sharia police called Hisbah often destroy alcohol and confiscated drugs, but the huge beer haul was one of the largest in a recently intensified [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has begun removing policies and measures put in place in 2020 to assist businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor said on Thursday. The unwinding strategy of the CBS, approved by its board on January 31, was presented to reporters in a press conference. CBS has extended the [...]
Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah on Tuesday defied attempts by parliament to replace him, setting up a potential showdown between his western-based government and the assembly in the east. Dbeibah was named interim leader last year under a UN-backed process aimed at helping the North African country recover from the decade of chaos that [...]
The Seychelles Postal Services (SPS) has a new chief executive, Mariella Buisson, who was appointed by President Wavel Ramkalawan recently. Buisson, who has a law degree, worked for 20 years with American designer fashion firm Ralph Lauren in the UK. Before return to Seychelles, she held the post of senior director of finance and operations at [...]
The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has risen to 92 in Madagascar, authorities said Wednesday, as humanitarian organisations ramped up aid efforts with more than 110,000 people in need of emergency assistance. The National Office for Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) released data from the hardest-hit regions revealing that 71 of the dead were [...]
