A new suspect arrested in the case of the missing $50 million from a government account has been released on bail after appearing before the Supreme Court on Monday. The bail sum was set at SCR 50,000 ($3,600) and the court ordered that the person does not leave the jurisdiction, surrenders passports and any other [...]
The 2022 sports fishing season will get underway on Saturday 22 this month with the Heineken Slam, earlier than usual, the Chairman of the Seychelles Sports Fishing Club (SSFC), Tarak Patel, said last week. The sports fishing season in the western Indian Ocean archipelago usually starts in April and Patel said that the club “has [...]
Mali's former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who led the West African country from 2013 until he was ousted in a coup in 2020, died aged 76 in the capital Bamako on Sunday, his family said. Mali's interim government issued a statement hailing "the memory of the illustrious" Keita, adding that the former president died "after [...]
The Seychelles Institute for Culture, Heritage and the Arts is seeking to encourage boys to take up the art of ballet dancing and several classes were held last week by British professional ballet dancer Shevelle Dynott. Dynott, who was formerly part of the English National Ballet, held classes mainly for boys aged between 6 [...]
Mohamed Salah got back among the goals for Egypt on Saturday as his second-half strike handed the record seven-time African champions a crucial 1-0 win over Guinea-Bissau in Garoua that was not without controversy. Salah's first-time finish at the back post in the 69th minute got his and his team's campaign in Cameroon up and [...]
Large waves crashed ashore in Tonga Saturday after a massive volcanic eruption that was heard in neighbouring countries triggered the area's second tsunami in as many days. "A 1.2 metre tsunami wave has been observed at Nukualofa," Australia's Bureau of Meteorology tweeted. The maximum tsunami wave recorded following Friday's explosion was 30 centimetres. The latest [...]
Chennai’s MIOT International Hospital on Friday opened a new state of the art eye care facility in Seychelles at a cost of $900,000, becoming the first Indian hospital to provide full-time services in the island state, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean. Prithvi Mohandas, director of MIOT International, said that the facility will “provide [...]
Seychelles' beauty queen Gabriella Gonthier won the Miss University Africa Tourism 2021 title at the Miss University Africa pageant in Abuja, Nigeria on December 18. Gonthier, 23, who is a fashion model as well as a senior monitoring and evaluation officer of the Ministry of Fisheries and the Blue Economy, told SNA that "in all [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan is heading to Abu Dhabi this weekend to participate in the upcoming Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) Summit 2022, the State House said on Friday. Ramkalawan will depart on January 16 and return on January 21. He will attend the official opening ceremony of the summit as well as the Zayed [...]
Schoolgirls in Seychelles will no longer have to miss classes for lack of access to menstrual hygiene products after the Ministry of Education received the first donation of supplies from Vijay Patel Seychelles, a company owned by a prominent Seychellois businessman and philanthropist, on Thursday. Patel agreed to finance the project through a partnership with [...]
