Seychellois businessman Mukesh Valabhji and Sarah Zarqhani Rene, the wife of former president France Albert Rene, both pleaded not guilty on Thursday to 15 new charges brought against them by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACCS) in relation to the missing $50 million case. The new amended charges, 10 against Valabhji and four against Zarqhani Rene, were [...]
The Seychelles' health authorities have removed with immediate effect the remaining restrictions on nightclubs and mass gatherings in a revision of the measures put in place to curb the increase of COVID-19. The Public Health Commissioner, Dr Jude Gedeon, made the announcement in a press interview on Thursday. Gedeon said that the restrictions are being removed [...]
Africa's fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala told AFP on Thursday he has given up on competing at the World Athletics Championships in the United States because of a delay in getting a visa. "I have given up my trip to Oregon. Even if I am given a visa today it's too late," said the 26-year-old Kenyan [...]
Protesters in Sri Lanka defied tear gas, water cannon and a state of emergency to storm the prime minister's office on Wednesday after the country's embattled president fled overseas, with the crowd demanding both men step down in the face of an economic crisis. In a televised statement Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he had [...]
There's a new and potentially very significant factor in the Ukrainian conflict: the Ukrainians' ability to use recently supplied Western systems to hit Russian command posts, logistical hubs and ammunition dumps a long way beyond the front lines. Source: Latest CNN News
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Maldives on board a flight for Singapore, a high-ranking security source in Colombo told CNN, as anger grows in his home country over his refusal to formally resign. Source: Latest CNN News
Individuals can help the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), an environmental public charitable trust, to collect data and expand their knowledge of the Seychelles black parrot by submitting photos of the endemic bird that wears rings on its legs placed by scientists. The black parrot, which lives exclusively on Praslin, the second-largest island of Seychelles, is listed as [...]
The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will make a state visit to Seychelles from July 17-19, State House said on Wednesday. Kenyatta's visit is at the invitation of the President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan when the two leaders met on the margins of the 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Abba [...]
France and Britain were set to suffer soaring temperatures on Wednesday, with a heatwave in Western Europe fuelling wildfires across vast stretches of forestland. Since Sunday, large parts of the Iberian Peninsula have seen temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Spain and Portugal, where firefighters have battled wildfires. In southern France since Tuesday [...]
Protesters in Sri Lanka defied tear gas, water cannon and a state of emergency to storm the prime minister's office on Wednesday after the president fled overseas, with the crowd demanding both men step down in the face of an economic crisis. In a televised statement Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he had instructed the [...]
