Crew members of the Iranian dhow Abdullahi were formally charged by the Supreme Court of Seychelles for the importation of illicit drugs to Seychelles on Tuesday. The crew of the Abdullahi, all eight Iranian nationals, were intercepted by the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) northeast of Denis Island, which lies 60 kilometres north of the main [...]
A not-for-profit organisation focused on combatting land degradation and deforestation on Seychelles' Praslin Island has ventured into agroforestry. Terrestrial Restoration Action Society Seychelles (TRASS) recently opened a second nursery with a capacity of twelve thousand local and rare fruits. Marc Jean-Baptiste, a member of TRASS, told SNA that the use of local fruits in the organisation's restoration [...]
Mexico and Chile on Thursday joined calls for an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the Israel-Hamas war that has left thousands of people dead. The referral "is due to the growing concern over the latest escalation of violence, particularly against civilian targets, and the alleged continued commission of crimes under the court's [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
