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Seychelles

Seychelles is an Indian Ocean archipelago with a population of around 100,000, making it the least populated nation in Africa. Seychelles is a major tourist destination that's famous for its idyllic white beaches.

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Screenshot | 77 | World Literacy Day: Seychelles leads Africa in literacy

World Literacy Day: Seychelles leads Africa in literacy

Seychelles is Africa's most educated nation, on a continent where an estimated 182 million adults can't read or write.
SocietySeptember 7, 202401:16 min
Seychelles Explosion in einem Sprengstofflager und Überschwemmung

Seychelles declares emergency after explosion, flooding

A blast at an explosives warehouse has caused massive damage to an industrial zone on the Seychelles' main island.
CatastropheDecember 7, 2023
Magazin Global 3000 Seychellen Ranger

Seychelles: Conservation and tourism rush

Rangers protect wildlife on the Cousin Island in Seychelles.
BusinessAugust 12, 202206:43 min
Logo "Global 3000"

Global 3000 - The Globalization Program

Counselors help farmers in Canada, and rangers protect an untouched island in Seychelles.
BusinessAugust 12, 202226:06 min
Doku KW 17 | Seychellen - Das bedrohte Paradies

Seychelles - Paradise at risk

Dream vacation or destination wedding - where better than Seychelles?
PoliticsApril 25, 202228:30 min
SHIFT vom 05.06.2021 Reef Design Lab

Repairing the reef with AI

A large artificial reef is located off the Seychelles. AI helped in its construction.
LifestyleNovember 27, 202100:55 min
China Djibouti Militärbasis

AfricaLink on Air - 07 September 2020

China setting up military bases in four African countries
PoliticsSeptember 7, 202029:59 min
DW Eco Africa: Sylvana Antat carries out underwater research in the Seychelles

Saving coral reefs in the Seychelles

After many of the Seychelles' coral reefs died, the island nation is on a mission to save its marine ecosystem.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 27, 201904:53 min
Nneota Egbe, Eco Africa Moderator,

Welcome to the latest edition of Eco Africa

This week: Protecting coral reefs in the Seychelles, cleaning up Denmark's rivers, and saving Africa’s largest lake.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 27, 2019
Eco Africa

Eco Africa — The Environment Magazine

This week: Protecting coral reefs in the Seychelles, cleaning up Denmark's rivers, and saving Africa's largest lake.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 27, 201926:06 min
Seychelles President Daniel Faure in a submersible

Seychelles president makes underwater ocean plea

Seychelles President Daniel Faure has called for stronger protection of the ocean in a speech given from a submersible.
Nature and EnvironmentApril 14, 2019
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Global 3000 - The Globalization Program

Earlier this year, Beijing banned Chinese imports of plastic waste.
Nature and EnvironmentFebruary 26, 201826:01 min
Seychelles

Seychelles: Saving the coral reefs

Residents of the Seychelles are fighting to save a precious marine habitat.
BusinessFebruary 23, 201804:55 min
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eco@africa - The Environment Magazine

Green cocoa production in Sierra Leone, monitoring Kenya's fish stocks and an eco-friendly soccer club on eco@africa.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 14, 201726:03 min
DW eco@africa - Biodiversity in the Seychelles

Biodiversity in the Seychelles

To help save a giant coconut species, the Seychelles is looking for ways to ensure that it has the necessary funds.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 14, 201703:41 min
DW eco@africa - Giant coconut in the Seychelles

Biodiversity in the Seychelles

To help save a giant coconut, the Seychelles is looking for ways to ensure that it has the necessary development funds
Nature and EnvironmentApril 15, 2017
Seychellen - Frau bei Wahllokal

Seychelles opposition wins first poll in 40 years

The Indian ocean archipelago is set for its first transition of power between parties since a 1977 coup.
September 11, 2016
17.12.2015 DW Global MTSeychelles

Millenium Teen: Angel Estico from the Seychelles

Angel Estico lives in Beauvallon, a small town in the north of the Seychelles. Much of his days are spent on the beach, where he often plays football with friends.
CultureDecember 21, 201502:19 min
Strand Seychellen Palme

Tuna and tourism boost Seychelles economy

The Indian Ocean archipelago has made a remarkable recovery from bankruptcy.
December 8, 201503:08 min
Ocean view

Protecting biodiversity in an island paradise

A BIOFIN initiative is helping support the Seychelles in its environmental protection efforts.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 10, 2015
Artikelbild Seychellen

Protecting nature in the Seychelles

The Seychelles works hard to protect its biodiversity – and the UN is helping.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 9, 201507:22 min
Coral fragments collected from a healthy donor site to a rope nursery - part of the "Reef Rescuers" project run by Nature Seychelles to rescue the country's coral reefs (Photo: "Nature Seychelles")

Rescuing reefs

In the Indian Ocean, coral reefs are in bad shape. Now, a project is underway to rescue them.
September 18, 2013

Saving coral reefs in the Seychelles

Coral bleaching has been a problem in the Indian Ocean since 1998. In the Seychelles, one small group of researchers has started a reef nursery where they grow coral.
ScienceSeptember 12, 201306:36 min

Sustainable Tourism in the Seychelles

Tourism is the most important sector of the Seychelles' economy, with a total contribution of over 50 percent to GDP. So you may think it would be easy for the country to become more affluent – just increase the number of visitors, and that's it. But there is a catch: If more and more tourists come, the marine, coastal and terrestrial environment they came to enjoy would be destroyed.
BusinessSeptember 4, 201306:50 min
Workers for NGO Nature Seychelles move a boat on Cousin Island

Sustainable paradise

Seychelles is trying to balance the needs of tourists, the environment and the local economy.
August 20, 2013
A tour operator's boat off the coast of Cousin, waiting for tourists to return (Photo: DW/ A. Rönsberg)

Cousin Island, a conservation success story

An ecological restoration program has made Cousin Island a conservation success story.
July 8, 201312 images
Andry Rajoelina flashing a victory sign to his supporters at a rally in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Madagascans meet

Madagascar's leader and the man he deposed three years ago finally meet for negotiations.
July 25, 2012
Suitcases lined up alongside Costa Allegra ship in port

Relief for stranded passengers

The Costa Allegra cruise liner has docked on the main island of the Seychelles, days after it was stranded because of a fire that cut the ship's power.
March 1, 2012
The Costa Allegra, left, being towed by French fishing vessel

Costa cruiser cast adrift

Rescuers have mounted efforts to aid the cruise ship Costa Allegra, adrift without power in the Indian Ocean. The vessel comes from the same fleet as the tragedy-stricken Costa Concordia that capsized in January.
February 28, 2012
Archive photo of the Hansa Stavanger

Somali Pirates

The captain of a hijacked German ship says his crew is exhausted and 'at the end of its rope.'
July 4, 2009
A navy ship escorts a passenger ship off the coast of Somalia

Fighting piracy

The EU is mulling expanding the scope of its anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa.
May 18, 2009

Paris Club Freezes South Asian Debt

The Paris Club of creditor nations announced Wednesday an immediate, unconditional debt repayment freeze for Indonesia, The Seychelles and Sri Lanka, which were hit by last month's catastrophic tidal wave.
January 12, 2005