A German tourist, aged 69, reported lost on Thursday, has been located in the vicinity of Anse Maron on La Digue Island, said the police. Found on Friday morning lodged in a gap between rocks, the man was taken to the Logan Hospital on La Digue, Seychelles' third most populated island, where he received medical care. [...]
November 18 marks a year since prominent Seychellois businessman Mukesh Valabhji and his wife Laura, a lawyer, were arrested by police on suspicion of money laundering of $50 million and have been on remand since. The case is related to $50 million granted to the Seychelles' government by the United Arab Emirates in 2002. The [...]
The UN nuclear watchdog's board of governors passed a resolution on Thursday expressing "grave concern" that Russia had not heeded calls to cease actions against nuclear facilities in war-torn Ukraine. The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors urged Moscow "to abandon its baseless claims of ownership of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant". The [...]
Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the trailblazing first woman to wield the speaker's gavel in the US House of Representatives, said Thursday that she will step down as party leader when Republicans take control of the chamber in January. "I will not seek reelection to Democratic leadership in the next Congress," Pelosi said in an emotional speech [...]
Seychelles has introduced for the first time a new biometric passport for its citizens and the first one was issued to President Wavel Ramkalawan on Wednesday at State House. The biometric passport has a microchip with data such as fingerprints, facial recognition and digital signature elements. The new passport also has some environmental and cultural features [...]
Monitoring and compliance remain significant challenges in implementing the Mahe Plateau Trap and Line Fishery Co-management Plan that came into force on October 1, 2022, to improve the sustainability of the fish stocks. Many members of the implementation committee of the plan made this observation during their interventions at the committee's 17th meeting on Thursday. This ranged [...]
UN climate talks got a boost Wednesday after Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed to fight Amazon deforestation and global leaders reaffirmed key pledges. While G20 leaders meeting in Indonesia issued a final communique committing to pursue the more ambitious limits on global heating, action on the sidelines of fraught COP27 negotiations in [...]
Seychelles shined again at the World Travel Awards, as two of its resorts walked away with global recognitions. The awards were announced during the 29th edition of the World Travel Awards grand final gala ceremony in Muscat, Oman, on November 11. The World Travel Awards is regarded as one of the most prestigious award events [...]
The patriotic music, fiery rhetoric and adoring crowd were all there as Donald Trump announced another White House bid, but -- in a sign his star has dimmed -- top Republican officials and even family members were no-shows. Trump's announcement that he is running again in 2024 came exactly a week after a poor Republican [...]
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday urged foreign visitors not to cancel their plans over fears of the Ebola outbreak in the East African nation, insisting that the disease was under control. Since the outbreak was declared in the central district of Mubende on September 20, cases have spread across the country, including to the [...]
