The United Nations and the United States appealed for restraint on Thursday after Iran and Pakistan traded deadly air strikes on militant targets on each other's territory. The rare military action across the porous border between the heavily armed neighbours has further stoked tensions already enflamed by the Israel-Hamas war. Pakistan's strikes against militant targets [...]
The Seychelles government announced on Thursday that it is finalising an agreement for a new tourism development to be built on Long Island. Vice President Ahmed Afif made the announcement in a Cabinet press briefing at State House. “We are in the final stages of the talks and we hope to be done within this [...]
The Financial Intelligence Unity (FIU) in Seychelles has clarified that the company Binance – the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – does not conduct any exchange activity in Seychelles, even though the company has an office in the island nation. The director of the FIU, Richard Rampal, made this statement after India's FIU announced the cutoff of [...]
A deep-sea submersible dive was broadcast worldwide last night from the Aldabra Atoll, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Seychelles, as part of a scientific research mission that began on January 14. The broadcast was featured at this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum being held in Davos, Switzerland. The scientific mission is a collaboration between the small [...]
The Comoros declared a curfew on Wednesday after security forces clashed with protesters angered by the re-election of President Azali Assoumani in a vote opposition leaders denounced as fraudulent. During the day, demonstrators ransacked a former minister's house and set it on fire, as others tried to block roads in the capital. Police responded with [...]
US and UK forces launched a fourth round of strikes against targets in Yemen, Huthi media said Thursday, as the Iran-backed rebels vowed to continue attacking Red Sea shipping. "We will continue to target Israeli ships heading to the ports of occupied Palestine, no matter how the American-British aggression tries to prevent us from doing [...]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan has sent messages of condolence to the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, and French President Emmanuel Macron, following the recent flooding and loss of lives resulting from Cyclone Belal in Mauritius and Reunion Island, according to statements from the Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. President Ramkalawan said that “We [...]
A police investigation has begun in Devon in the United Kingdom after the bodies of seven Aldabra giant tortoises were discovered in a forest, according to an article published yesterday in the British newspaper The Guardian. Two of the tortoises were discovered on January 8 and a further five were found nearby on January 12. [...]
Former Agency for Social Protection (ASP) chief executive Marcus Simeon, 42, received an 18-month sentence on January 15 from the Supreme Court of Seychelles, following a case brought by the government. Simeon, suspended from his duties in September 2020, pleaded guilty to embezzling SCR1.6 million ($ 118,816) and unlawfully acquiring public funds from the ASP [...]
The death toll from a devastating storm that hit France's Indian Ocean island of Reunion rose to three Tuesday after the discovery of two more bodies, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. All three people killed by cyclone Belal were homeless people in the Indian Ocean island, Darmanin told the French parliament in Paris. "It is [...]
