A crew of 29 members left the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) base on Mahe on Tuesday on the ship Saya de Malha on a first expedition to tackle fishing aggregate devices (FADs) in the southern groups of islands of the Seychelles archipelago. FADs are man-made floating wooden structures with
Sub-Saharan Africa faces its “most challenging environment in years,” with the region’s pandemic recovery disrupted by surging inflation, rising interest rates and a global slowdown, the IMF said Friday. The crisis lender’s assessment came days after it downgraded the region’s growth prospect to 3.6 percent for 2022 — markedly
The United States warned Monday it would take action against companies and nations working with Iran’s drone program after Russia used the imports for deadly kamikaze strikes in Kyiv. “Anyone doing business with Iran that could have any link to UAVs or ballistic missile developments or the flow of
All the infrastructure work on La Gogue dam in Seychelles is expected to be completed in November, before it becomes fully operational in the first quarter of 2023. A delegation, which included President Wavel Ramkalawan and the environment minister, Flavien Joubert, visited the facility on Tuesday. Erna Victor,
Telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Seychelles has launched an eSIM service for its customers as new technologies have allowed SIM cards to be digitised. At the launching of the eSIM, Malika Romain, the product and services executive said that “over the years, SIM cards have gotten smaller and smaller,
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) has received a new 9-metre boat from the European Union to service the experimental marine cages that are operated as a component of the Aquaculture Department’s ongoing research programme. In a press release on Tuesday, SFA said that the vessel was handed over on
A Nigerian national has been charged by the Seychelles Supreme Court for the importation of a controlled drug, the police said on Tuesday. According to the police, the 37-year-old was arrested after his arrival at the Seychelles International Airport on board an Ethiopian airline flight and a scan of
The fight against substance abuse in Seychelles is a long one and additional resources and a proper place to provide services are needed by the Division for Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation (DSAPTR), said a top official. The director general of the division, formerly the Agency for the
It’s harvest time in Lejone, a small village nestling in mountains in southern Africa more than two thousand metres above sea level. The yield is not grain or fruit, but rainbow trout — the bounty from an undulating river at the foot of the peaks of Lesotho. Fishermen
British Prime Minister Liz Truss lurched deeper into chaos Wednesday as her hardline interior minister quit, forcing the new leader to turn to one of her strongest critics to shore up her tottering government. Suella Braverman left as home secretary ostensibly after using her personal email to send an