Internet access across several East African countries was disrupted on this week due to damaged undersea cables, global web monitor NetBlocks said. Tanzania and the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte were the hardest hit, the internet surveillance group said. "The incident is attributed to failures affecting the SEACOM and EASSy subsea cable systems," it [...]
The Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) will undertake the construction of the Aldabra House at Providence and rebuild the research station on the Aldabra Atoll in the coming months to improve its services. The Royal Society, one of the oldest scientific societies in the world and also the United Kingdom's National Academy of Sciences, built the Aldabra research station [...]
Seychelles has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom's Hydrography Organisation to update its bathymetric charts. The new memorandum of understanding (MOU), which will further strengthen collaboration in hydrography, was signed on Friday by Patrick Andre, the principal secretary for Transport and UK's national hydrographer, Rear Admiral Angus Essenhigh. After the signing, the Minister for Transport, Antony Derjacques, said [...]
The Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) new headquarters are nearly complete and on Friday the Chinese Ambassador Lin Nan officially handed over the technical equipment they will use once they move in. Nan handed over the equipment to the SBC's chief executive, Berard Dupres, in a ceremony held at the newly built SBC House. The SBC [...]
Presidential and legislative elections in Seychelles will take place on September 27, 2025, if a proposed 11th amendment to the Constitution on a fixed date for elections if approved by the National Assembly. Vice President Ahmed Afif made the statement on Thursday during a Cabinet decisions briefing with reporters on Wednesday. The proposed amendment establishes [...]
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was able to speak but remained in serious condition on Thursday, officials said as police charged a suspect for the attack they called politically motivated. President-elect Peter Pellegrini briefed journalists a day after the shooting, which has prompted fears of further violence in the politically polarised nation just weeks before [...]
Areas of the Pacific territory of New Caledonia have "escaped" state control, the French government's representative said Friday, announcing fresh security deployments after days of deadly violence. "Reinforcements will be arriving ... to control the areas that have escaped us in recent days, where control is no longer assured," the High Commissioner of the Republic [...]
Ukraine warned on Thursday it faced a "very difficult" military situation in its northeast Kharkiv region, where Moscow has made its largest territorial gains in 18 months since launching a surprise offensive last week. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv was sending yet more reinforcements to the area, the Ukrainian army said it had [...]
Leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin framed their nations' ties as a stabilising force in a chaotic world as they met Thursday in Beijing, where the Russian president is seeking greater Chinese support for his war effort in Ukraine. It is Putin's first trip abroad since his March re-election and the second in just over [...]
Georges Robert is the new Ombudsman of Seychelles and was sworn in on Thursday with his family present in a ceremony at State House. This followed the recommendations from the Constitutional Appointees Authority (CAA). He succeeds Nichole Tirant-Ghérardi. "I am truly honoured and humbled to have been appointed the fifth Ombudsman of Seychelles, and I [...]
