Scott Morrison was installed as Australia's seventh prime minister in 11 years Friday after a stunning Liberal party revolt instigated by hardline conservatives unseated moderate Malcolm Turnbull. Former home affairs minister Peter Dutton, an ex-police officer and right-winger, was the driving force behind the move to oust Turnbull after a party backlash against his more [...]
Renewing interest in Seychelles’ traditional drum is the aim of a holiday programme launched this week by the National Conservatoire of Performing Arts. Pierre Joseph, director of the Conservatoire, said that the workshops are necessary as there is little interest in the Moutya drum. “We have decided to open these sessions for both adults and [...]
The Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that Japan will be opening of an embassy in Seychelles soon. The statement was made during a press conference after Masahisa Sato paid a courtesy visit to President Danny Faure at State House, Victoria. “With the direction we are going, this move will strengthen our bilateral [...]
Sri Lanka will soon resume executions after a 42-year moratorium but will send home five Pakistanis sentenced to death for drug smuggling for execution in their home country, President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday. The five are among 18 people, including a woman, on death row for drug offences whose execution will go ahead, according to [...]
Fregate Island is the 7th inner island of Seychelles -- an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean. It is the easternmost of the granitic Inner Islands, 55 km east of the main island of Mahe. Discovered by French explorer Lazare Picault in 1744, the island was named after the fregate birds found on the island. Over 250 years later, Fregate [...]
From iconic Harley Davidson motorcycles and American bourbon to machinery and computer processors, the world's two largest economies have exchanged punitive tariffs that slice through a wide swath of key products. Starting Thursday at 12:01 am (0401 GMT), the US will charge 25 percent import duties on an additional $16 billion in Chinese products, bringing [...]
A 28-year-old South African national arrested for importing a controlled drug has been remanded for 14 days by the Seychelles’ Magistrates Court, the Anti-Narcotics Bureau (ANB) said on Wednesday. The Bureau said the South African was arrested on Monday upon her arrival at the Seychelles International airport travelling from South Africa via Addis Ababa onboard [...]
A total of 46 candidates including the incumbent president and his two predecessors are seeking to contest Madagascar's presidential polls at the end of the year, the Constitutional Court said Tuesday. The court will now assess the candidates' eligibility and confirm by Sunday which ones will be allowed to stand in the first round of [...]
An American whose goal is to visit each of the 197 sovereign countries in the world, and break two world records in the process, was in Seychelles as she visited the 149th country on her list. Taylor Demonbreun said she is on a mission to visit all the countries in about 400 days. “This will [...]
Former Comoros president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi has been detained and charged in connection with misappropriating funds linked to a vast passport selling scam, his lawyer said Tuesday. A magistrate charged Sambi, in power between 2006 and 2011, with "corruption, misappropriation of public funds and complicity in forgery", and ordered his house arrest following a hearing [...]