The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has expressed its appreciation for the commitment of Seychelles and its participation in many operations combatting a wide array of crimes, said the Minister for Internal Affairs and Immigration, Errol Fonseka, on Tuesday. Fonseka was answering a question in the National Assembly raised by the elected member for the [...]
Israeli troops and Hamas militants engaged Tuesday in "fierce battles" in Gaza, where the dire humanitarian crisis spiralled and tearful Palestinian families scoured rubble in a desperate search for loved ones. Footage from the Israeli military showed tanks and armoured bulldozers churning up bomb-scarred dirt tracks and troops searching shattered buildings for Hamas militants and [...]
King Charles III paid a solemn visit Tuesday to the birthplace of independent Kenya, at the start of a trip clouded by calls for an apology over Britain's bloody colonial past. Although the four-day state visit by Charles and Queen Camilla has been billed as an opportunity to look to the future and build on [...]
For the second year running, Seychelles is hosting the Maritime Rule of Law Exercise (MROLEX) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The first part of the exercise has ended and participants from Seychelles, Mauritius and Somalia received their certificates on Tuesday. It took place from October 18 to 31 with 32 participants, [...]
The newly accredited British High Commissioner to Seychelles said he wants the United Kingdom to be the island nation's closest partner, particularly in areas like environmental protection. Jeffrey Frank Glekin presented his credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House on Tuesday. Glekin talked about good governance and expressed his desire to see the civil service modernise. [...]
The Kremlin on Monday blamed "external interference" for an anti-Israel riot that closed an airport in the Muslim-majority region of Dagestan the previous day. The Kremlin announced Putin will gather his top advisers -- including the defence minister and spy chiefs -- later Monday to discuss the "West's attempts to use the events in the [...]
Israeli tanks briefly advanced Monday into the fringes of Gaza City, witnesses said, as the army ramped up its war on Hamas saying it had killed dozens of militants in hundreds of strikes. The military said it had struck more than 600 targets in 24 hours, up from 450 the previous day, in one of [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court has charged a Dutch national for importation of a controlled drug, and conspiracy to import and traffick a controlled drug, the police said on Monday. Ernest Cezary Kosiek, aged 30, was arrested at the Seychelles International Airport at Pointe Laure on October 13 upon his arrival on a Qatar Airways flight [...]
Seychelles' energy department is looking for locations to install large-scale solar farms on Praslin and La Digue as part of the island nation's aim to achieve 15 percent renewable penetration by 2030. The principal secretary for the Department of Energy, Tony Amaduwa, told SNA that feasibility studies are underway with regard to the project. "We [...]
A "cash-lite" approach is being undertaken in Seychelles to ensure that specific groups of the population that are less adaptable to change and rely heavily on cash are provided with a payment option. CBS said that this is being done until such time that digital alternatives are significantly introduced and adopted and confidently being used [...]
