Author: Seychelles News Agency
Seychellois who earned top-in-class forensic accounting honours turns gazes to island nation
A Seychellois who studied forensic accounting in the United Kingdom has been awarded the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Prize for coming top [...]
Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala set to be first woman named WTO boss
Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looks set to be confirmed Monday as the first woman and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organization [...]
UN Security Council to debate challenge of global vaccine access
At the initiative of Britain, which boasts of having an effective vaccination program, the UN Security Council on Wednesday will debate the problem of [...]
New study in Seychelles shows value of even elderly warblers raising their young
New research conducted on Seychelles' warblers has shown that the bird's offspring fare better if elderly parents have helped to raise them.
Accordin [...]
Residents of Seychelles’ Anse La Mouche subdistrict protest new hotel development,
About three dozen residents took to Seychelles' Anse à La Mouche road in the south-west of the main island of Mahe on Saturday to peacefully protest t [...]
UK top court allows Nigeria spill claims against Shell
Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that more than 40,000 people in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria can make pollution claims against Anglo-Dutc [...]
Seychelles ranks 67th in 2020 Human Development Index, with huge progress made last 30 years
Seychelles is ranked 67th out of 189 countries in the 30th edition of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2020 Human Development Index (HD [...]
Banks in Seychelles to ensure continued operations in case of larger COVID-19 outbreak
Financial and banking institutions in Seychelles are re-organising their operations to ensure continuity in their services to the public amid the COVI [...]
Shelling killed scores of civilians at start of Tigray war: HRW
Ethiopian forces shelled heavily populated areas in the first weeks of the conflict in the Tigray region, killing at least 83 civilians and displacing [...]
COVID-19 measures extended in Seychelles; schools to re-open by early March
Restrictions on movements in Seychelles have been extended to the end of February in a continued effort to stop the transmission of COVID-19 from spre [...]