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Seychelles Opposition Leader Wins Presidential Run-off

Seychelles' opposition leader Patrick Herminie won the presidential run-off on Sunday, electoral commission results showed, after a race dominated by environmental and economic concerns.

International Business Times · Oct 12, 2025

Opposition leader Patrick Herminie wins presidential runoff election in Seychelles

Official results show that opposition leader Patrick Herminie has won the presidential election in Seychelles, defeating incumbent leader Wavel Ramkalawan in Saturday’s runoff vote

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2025

Seychelles to hold rerun presidential election after no outright winner

Seychelles’ electoral authority says the country will hold a rerun vote between the two main contenders

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2025

Seychelles president says 'no time to wait' after COP27 deal on 'loss and damage'

In an interview with FRANCE 24, the president of Seychelles hailed the deal reached at the COP27 climate conference on a "loss and damage" fund for vulnerable nations as "good news". Wavel Ramkalawan said that "loss and damage" had been a long-standing request of small island states like his, but…

France 24 · Nov 21, 2022

African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change

Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate summit

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2022

Seychelles says the rich world is failing on climate

Climate-aid pledges by industrialized nations are worthless, says the leader of the Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago threatened by rising sea levels.

Tribune News Service · May 30, 2022