The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, has sent a message of congratulations to the newly-elected President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, State House said on Monday. In his message, Faure said he remains confident that bilateral relations between the two countries will expand further in the spirit of friendship and cooperation. This year marks [...]
Ethiopia and Eritrea are no longer at war, the neighbours said in a joint statement Monday, a day after their leaders held a historic meeting in Asmara. Quoting from a "Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship," Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel said on Twitter the "state of war that existed between the two countries has [...]
A father and son team -- Bernard and Benjamin Port Louis -- have started to transform seaweed into liquid fertiliser. Their seaweed factory, Seaweed Seychelles, is also producing pulverised cooked and dried seaweed for soil conditioning. “We have started production just in time as the country enters the South East monsoon season when the most [...]
A treacherous rescue bid to free a youth football team trapped in a flooded Thai cave entered its second day Monday, with nine of the "Wild Boars" still inside after elite divers guided four out. Looming rain was one of the main enemies of the operation, threatening to flood the cave complex in mountainous northern [...]
Researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have joined together in a battle against what one expert calls a root crop "Ebola" -- a viral disease that could wreck the region's staple food and condemn millions to hunger. Their enemy: cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a virus that strikes cassava, also called manioc, [...]
The construction of a tunnel on Seychelles’ most populated island -- Mahe -- will help bring down the cost of living, an advisor to the President says. Economic advisor Bertrand Belle said the building of a tunnel between Cascade -- an eastern Mahe district -- and Grand Anse on the western side “will reduce costs [...]
The last episode of a series featuring beautiful scenes from Seychelles aired last week on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, while local partners await the producers’ decision for a season two. The comedy series, titled ‘High and Dry’, unfolds with passengers surviving a plane crash on a deserted tropical island. Scenes of the series [...]
The near 40-year quest for an AIDS vaccine received a hopeful boost Saturday when scientists announced that a trial drug triggered an immune response in humans and shielded monkeys from infection. Shown to be safe in humans, the candidate vaccine has now advanced to the next phase of the pre-approval trial process, and will be [...]
The lawyer for a man from Mauritius charged with sexual abuse for an alleged attack against a Russian travel writer last year says he will seek to have the case dismissed. The Mauritian man, aged 37, appeared before the Seychelles Supreme Court on Thursday and the defence lawyer, Basil Hoareau, told the court that he [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, has reaffirmed the excellent relations that exist between the island nation and Saudi Arabia in a private discussion with Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Saud Bin Nayef Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Thursday, said State House. Faure welcomed Bin Nayef to the island nation and had a private discussion on [...]