Seychelles is set to pull in more tourists from Bulgaria with the arrival of the first ever chartered flight – a fully booked Bulgaria Air operation - that landed at the Pointe Laure international airport on Saturday. Touching down at 8 am with 175 passengers directly from Sofia, the flight is part of a series [...]
Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said on Friday that his government was "ruling nothing out" regarding its relations with France, amid fraught tensions between the two countries. Speaking to French broadcaster RFI, he added that the question of French troops leaving the conflict-torn country "is not on the table for the moment." The former colonial [...]
A Seychellois couple facing charges of corruption and money laundering represented themselves before the Supreme Court on Friday after their lead counsel recused himself and their foreign lawyer left the country while awaiting a work permit. Lawyer Frank Elizabeth said he would no longer represent Mukesh and Laura Valabhji in the "missing $50 million" case, [...]
A Seychellois couple facing charges of corruption and money laundering represented themselves before the Supreme Court on Friday after their lead counsel recused himself and their foreign lawyer left the country while awaiting a work permit. Lawyer Frank Elizabeth said he would no longer represent Mukesh and Laura Valabhji in the "missing $50 million" case, [...]
The Seychelles national football team is expected to start its qualification matches in the African Cup of Nations 2023 (AFCON) competition against Lesotho in March. Seychelles was drawn against Lesotho last week and the two teams last met at the same stage of the competition in March 2016. The Seychellois side won the home leg [...]
Air Seychelles will pay off only $27.8 million out of the $76 million initial debt owed to bondholders as part of the national airline's rescue plan in an agreement between the company's administrators and its creditors. One of the administrators, Bernard Pool, said in a press release on Friday, that consultations will continue between the [...]
Joseph Belmont, the former Vice President of Seychelles, has passed away. Belmont, who was 74 years old, died following a long illness at Seychelles Hospital in Victoria on Friday. On Friday, President Wavel Ramkalawan issued a message of condolences to the wife and family of the former vice president. "Vice-President Belmont was a true servant [...]
West African heads of state on Friday began talks on how to respond to a new coup in Burkina Faso, hours after the military junta there appealed for international support. Burkina President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was overthrown on Monday by mutineering soldiers on the back of public anger at his failure to stem jihadist [...]
Rwanda said Friday it will reopen its land border with Uganda at the end of the month after a three-year closure, signalling a thaw in frosty relations between the neighbours. The move follows a visit to Kigali last weekend by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's powerful son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, during which he and Rwandan President [...]
A total of 1,182 Seychellois living overseas have come forward to register with the diaspora unit of the foreign affairs department, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the press conference on Thursday, the director general of the Protocol, Consular and Diaspora Affairs, Jacques Belle spoke about the new unit, which was created in [...]
