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First Seychellois on European Trial in Marseille In October 2021 Hoareau was named captain of his school football team in Mont Fleuri. AND NOW is currently on trial at Olympique de Marseille, one of the biggest clubs in France and Europe! This is a first for Seychelles! September 2021, young Lorenzo Hoareau was called up to the senior […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – SeyBrew, the flagship brand of Seychelles Breweries, has won a gold award in the International Lager category of the African Beer Cup, the company said on Tuesday. The iconic beer brand also clinched third overall in the competition for the title of Best Beer in Africa out of 251 beers by an expert panel during […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Conservationists and eco-tourists on Fregate Island in Seychelles are now able to use a phone app to track the movements of Mario and Norbert, two Aldabra giant tortoises, following the recent tagging of the giant reptiles with GPS trackers. The island’s deputy conservation manager, Anna Zora, told SNA that the conservation […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles will launch its first atmospheric balloon satellite to collect data on greenhouse gases on Thursday, April 28. The event is a collaboration between the Department of Science and Technology in Seychelles and Space Kidz India (SKI) – an aerospace organisation for young scientists – through which 30 trained students from the island nation […]
Heat-resilient “super corals”: Nature Seychelles setting up aquaculture farm for future corals (Seychelles News Agency) – Nature Seychelles, a nonprofit organisation, is planning to set up a land-based aquaculture coral farm on the island of Praslin to produce more heat-resilient super corals, which are better engineered to adapt to continuously rising ocean temperatures. The organisation’s chief […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles won 14 medals — six gold, four silver and four bronze — and set a new championship record at the CANA Zone IV Championship 2022, the Southern African competition organised by the Africa Swimming Confederation in Lusaka, Zambia recently. Seychelles’ relay team made up of Joshua Miller, Alain Vidot, Adam Moncherry and […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles is gearing up for the 9th edition of the Francophonie Games in the Democratic Republic of Congo in August 2023 and the final selection of participants will be announced in December. The Games, which are a mixture of artistic and sporting events for French-speaking countries, are scheduled for July 28 to August 6, […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles will finalise its Marine Spatial Plan in December this year and move to the implementation of activities that will be allowed in the designated Marine Protected Areas, said the project manager on Wednesday. Helena Sims gave an update on the developments of the plan to all partners concerned at a workshop held […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – A podcast by two Seychellois students passionate about climate change and the sustainability of Seychelles started on Monday. The podcast called ‘Together Far Apart podcast of UN Moves’, which focuses on small island states, was made by Stacy Coopoosamy and Zoe. The first episode was “Let’s hear it for seagrass.” The content for the […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles has won the GIST Green Travel Award for its efforts to preserve its natural beauty and protect wildlife with sustainable tourism at the Trade and Consumer Fair BIT 2022 in Milan. Tourism Seychelles – the marketing arm of the tourism department – said on Wednesday that the island nation walked away from […]
HRH Queen Elizabeth II dies. – April 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022 The sad news was announced from the Queen’s Scottish residence, Balmoral in Aberdeenshire, that Queen Elizabeth II has died. Queen Elizabeth II on 6th September 2022 The monarch came to the British throne in 1953, also ruling over Seychelles as it […]
Congratulations Seychelles!!!!! Seychelles’ Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 has won a gold award for Best Exhibition Design in the sustainability thematic district, presented in a ceremony on Thursday on the closing day of the event. In presenting his heartiest congratulations to the Seychelles Expo 2020 team, Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan said that “as one of the smallest island […]
