With a focus on restorative justice, inmate management by category, and officer training and development, the Seychelles Prison Services are transitioning to the Seychelles Correctional Services in its new strategic plan, said a top official on Thursday. Providing media houses with an update on the operations of the institution, the commissioner of the Seychelles Prison Services, Raymond St. [...]
Comoros will organise the next Indian Ocean Island Games in 2027 followed by Maldives in 2031, according to an announcement made during the meeting of the International Games Committee (CIJ) on Thursday. The committee will be writing to the Olympic Committee of Comoros and the country's government to request formal confirmation. Meanwhile, Seychellois swimmer Simon [...]
A fire that engulfed a five-storey building killed more than 70 people including children in central Johannesburg on Thursday, the South African city's emergency services said. Another 52 were injured, some suffering from smoke inhalation, and were taken for treatment at local hospitals, Emergency Management Services spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said. "We have now 73 fatalities [...]
"Reform, Prosperity and Unity" is the theme that the newly registered political party - Seychelles United Movement (SUM) - will work under if it is successful in the country's next elections in 2025. The registration ceremony of the Seychelles United Movement was held at the office of the Seychelles Electoral Commission on Friday after an [...]
Seychelles authorities have approved a class two environment impact assessment (EIA) that will allow for the extraction of sand that is managed by the state-owned Islands Development Company (IDC) to replenish its depleted stockpile of 500 cubic metres. The announcement was made by the chief executive of IDC, Glenny Savy, in a recent press conference. "Now [...]
Leaders of the coup in Gabon on Wednesday named a general transitional president after seizing power following disputed elections in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has ruled for 55 years, was declared the winner. The claimed takeover sparked condemnation from the African Union and alarm from Nigeria over "contagious autocracy" in a continent [...]
An Air Seychelles flight, which made an emergency landing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday night due to a technical malfunction, reached its destination in Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon. Carrying 128 Israeli passengers, flight HM022 originating from Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, made the unscheduled stop at the King Abdulaziz International Airport [...]
The turbulent continent of Africa has experienced seven coups since August 2020, before army officers in the West African country said Wednesday they had deposed President Ali Bongo in Gabon. A timeline: - 2023: Niger - On July 26, 2023, members of the presidential guard overthrow Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum, elected in 2021. General Abdourahamane [...]
Military officers announced on Wednesday overturning the government in Gabon, in an apparent coup targeting President Ali Bongo Ondimba who has been in power for 14 years and whose re-election was just announced. The status of Ali Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-rich African country for over 55 years, was not immediately clear but [...]
Team Seychelles won six gold medals on the fourth day of the Indian Ocean Island Games in Madagascar to bring the total to eight. The gold medals on Wednesday came from the swimming, weightlifting, and boxing events. Swimmer Simon Bachmann won his second gold medal when he came out first in the men's 200m butterfly [...]
