SINGAPORE – Two vessels, including one ferry carrying 165 passengers from Batam to Singapore, collided in the city state’s waters on Nov 10. There were no reports of injury, and all the passengers and ...

Seychelles and Mauritius retained their ranking as Africa’s most attractive investment destinations, outperforming larger economies, including Egypt, South Africa and Morocco, according to a report ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Opposition leader Patrick Herminie defeated President Wavel Ramkalawan in Seychelles’ presidential runoff, ...

Voters in Seychelles have been casting their ballots in a tightly fought presidential run-off between incumbent Wavel Ramkalawan and opposition leader Patrick Herminie. Polls opened in the African ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — Opposition leader Patrick Herminie won the presidential election in Seychelles, defeating incumbent leader Wavel Ramkalawan in a runoff vote, according to official results ...

With no outright winner, Seychelles will hold a rerun presidential election after the country’s two main contenders secured below 50 percent of the votes, the electoral authority said. According to ...

The people of Seychelles voted on Saturday (September 27, 2025) in an election to choose a new leader and Parliament, with President Wavel Ramkalawan seeking a second term in Africa's smallest country ...

The Seychelles Tourism Department has successfully concluded the validation phase of the La Digue Visitor Use Management Plan (VUMP) following a week-long series of consultations that began on La ...

In 2024, this African archipelagic nation, a thousand miles east of the continent’s mainland, welcomed a little more than 350,000 international arrivals. It’s a fraction of the Maldives’ numbers, but ...

Every August, the island of La Digue comes alive as Seychelles observes the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, one of the nation’s most cherished religious and cultural events. This year’s ...

Seychelles—a nation of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean—today enjoys a comparatively high degree of economic stability. Inflation is below 2 percent, real GDP has largely recovered from the pandemic, ...

Marines are now on duty in Los Angeles for the first time. Tensions are escalating between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as protests against Immigration and Customs ...