The poverty rate in Seychelles had been on the right track before the island nation's tourism industry was crippled by COVID-19, a new study shows. The study found that there had been a reduction of 13.5 percent of the population living under the poverty line in Seychelles from 2017 to 2018. The study of 2,036 [...]
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied corruption charges against him in a brief court appearance Monday, as his graft trial intensifies weeks before a fourth national election inside two years. Netanyahu, the first Israeli premier to be indicted in office, was formally charged last year over allegations that he accepted improper gifts and sought to [...]
Somalia's opposition leaders have announced that they no longer recognise President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, after his term expired without a political agreement on a path toward elections to replace him. The Horn of Africa nation was supposed to hold indirect elections before February 8 but the deadline was missed as the central government and federal [...]
Chad's former prime minister Moussa Faki Mahamat on Saturday won a second term as head of the African Union's executive body at the opening of a two-day virtual summit expected to focus on the continent's pandemic response. Faki, who ran unopposed, received support from 51 of 55 member states in the secret ballot, officials said. [...]
Two new endemic species of ‘Craterispermum’ — known in Seychelles as ‘Bwa dou’ — have been revealed by the Seychelles National Herbarium. Previously it was believed that there was only a single species of ‘Bwa dou’, a flowering plant, which was found as three separate sub populations on the three largest granitic islands of Mahé, [...]
African leaders will open a two-day virtual summit Saturday to discuss the continent's Covid-19 response as well as security issues that have been overlooked during the pandemic. The African Union summit comes almost exactly one year after Egypt recorded the first case of Covid-19 in Africa, prompting widespread fears that member states' weak health systems [...]
Over 5,000 new flora and fauna have been recorded and added to the Seychelles' biodiversity database through a photo competition organised by the Plant Conservation Action group. The iNaturalist photo competition, which took place between mid-October and mid-December last year, was organised in an effort to promote citizen science and data collection in Seychelles. It also [...]
Construction of a hotel at Anse à La Mouche will start next month in spite of concerns raised by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Seychelles over the protection of the wetland and adjacent coastal area. A board member of Sustainability 4 Seychelles (S4S), Marie-Therese Purvis, wrote in a letter to SNA that when the project was first [...]
In his first live press conference since being elected to Seychelles' top office, President Wavel Ramkalawan gave another warning to those in the illegal drug trade that his administration would be clamping down, as the recent deportation of a Kenyan national on drug charges shows. The president also invited Seychellois who have doubts about his [...]
The UN Security Council and General Assembly on Thursday launched the recruitment process for the next secretary-general, a post currently held by Antonio Guterres who has announced he will seek a second term. Aged 71, the former Portuguese prime minister enjoys broad support at the General Assembly and the Security Council, including crucially from its [...]
