An independent ocean authority is expected to be set up in Seychelles by 2025 to ensure proper monitoring and protection of the Seychelles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The proposed authority is being considered now that the island nation has reached its target of 30 percent ocean protection around some of its outer islands as part of [...]
Tanzania's main opposition presidential candidate Thursday declared he would not recognise the result of an election he said was marred by irregularities such as ballot box stuffing. Counting was ongoing on the Tanzanian mainland while the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar -- which elects its own president and lawmakers -- announced the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi [...]
Reconstruction work has resumed on Pirates Arms, one of the Seychelles' landmarks in the capital, Victoria, the Seychelles Pension Fund said. The Pirates Arms building in the centre of Victoria on Independence Avenue is being redeveloped because of the high maintenance cost of repairs on the old building. The construction site was visited by the [...]
Wood from Madagascar. The French language from Reunion, a French Department in the Indian ocean. And the renegotiation of some loans. Seychelles' newly elected President Wavel Ramkalawan began talking through some of his foreign affairs ideas after his swearing-in on Monday. The President said the country needs to re-negotiate some loans, likely due to the [...]
India on Thursday passed eight million coronavirus cases and the world's second-worst-hit country is bracing for a new wave in the pandemic. There have now been 8,040,203 cases and 120,527 deaths across the country of 1.3 billion people, according to the latest government figures. The United States has seen 9.1 million cases and more than [...]
The 35 members of the seventh National Assembly of Seychelles -- a majority of them from the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) party -- were sworn in on Wednesday. The 26 members voted into office in legislative elections held October 22-24 and the nine members chosen for the proportionate seats took their oath of allegiance. LDS, [...]
The local election observer group Citizens Democratic Watch Seychelles (CDWS) on Wednesday said the October 22 – 24 election was mostly peaceful but faced challenges with voter lists and cases of voter intimidation. CDWS said that there should have been more voter and civic education in preparation for the elections. "Since the proclamation of the [...]
French energy giant Total announced Wednesday it had made a second "significant" gas discovery off South Africa's southern coast, months after a similar finding in 2019. The gas deposit was found 175 kilometres (110 miles) offshore near another discovered early last year. "Total has made a significant gas condensate discovery on the Luiperd prospect... in [...]
Flood-ravaged Vietnam has begun evacuating more than half a million people from its central coastal region as it braces for Typhoon Molave, the fourth storm to hit the country in weeks. Schools and beaches have been closed and many flights cancelled ahead of the severe typhoon. It is forecast to make landfall south of Danang [...]
Ahmed Afif was sworn in as the Vice President of Seychelles on Tuesday at State House in the capital, Victoria. Afif ran alongside Wavel Ramkalawan, who won the presidential election with 54.9 percent of the valid votes. In his address, Afif said, "I will discharge my responsibility without favour and in a way that we [...]
