Girls in Seychelles to receive free sanitary products
Sanitary products will be made available free of charge to all girls in Seychelles in both state and private secondary schools as of the new school year in January 2022.
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Seychelles to build world’s largest salt-water floating solar plant
The 5MW solar plant will require 13,500 solar panels, which will be built across 40,000 square meters of water. It is expected to commence in July.
Seychelles extends marine protection area to twice the size of Great Britain
The move fulfills the country’s long-standing pledge to safeguard 30% of its marine waters.
Seychelles ends one-party rule and holds its first multiparty elections
Seychelles returned to multiparty democracy in 1993, sixteen years after a 1977 coup had dissolved the young nation’s first experiment with self-rule. A new constitution reopened the ballot across the 115-island archipelago, and opposition voices long silenced could campaign freely again. For a country barely a generation into independence, it was a quiet but meaningful homecoming.
Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom
Seychelles independence arrived on June 29, 1976, when the Indian Ocean archipelago raised its flag as a sovereign republic after 165 years of British rule. The new nation of roughly 60,000 people, scattered across 115 islands, was itself a creation of empire — a Creole society built from African, Asian, and European roots finally claiming its own home.
Vasco da Gama becomes the first European to sight the Seychelles islands
Vasco da Gama’s fleet sighted the Seychelles on 15 March 1503, when scrivener Thomé Lopes logged a rugged volcanic island rising from the Indian Ocean — almost certainly Silhouette. No one went ashore, and the archipelago stayed uninhabited for another 267 years. It was a small notation that quietly pulled the islands into the world’s maps.
Malay seafarers from Borneo perhaps become the first humans to reach Seychelles
Around 250 C.E., Austronesian seafarers from Borneo may have briefly paused at the uninhabited granite islands we now call the Seychelles, en route to Madagascar nearly 3,000 kilometers west of home. They left no fire, no settlement, no certain trace. If the hypothesis holds, it marks one quiet moment in the longest prehistoric migration humans ever made.