British navy vessel HMS Montrose is in Seychelles' Port Victoria on a two-week joint training exercise between the UK's Combined Marine Force and the Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF). The training, which started in Seychelles last week, includes search and rescue, maritime law and information sharing among others. Seychelles' Designated Minister, Jean Francois Ferrari, said that "Seychelles [...]
Super Typhoon Noru slammed into the Philippines Sunday, battering the heavily populated main island of Luzon with strong winds and heavy rain that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes. The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres (121 miles) an hour as it charged towards the archipelago nation after an [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed amendments toughening penalties for voluntary surrender, desertion and refusal to fight by up to 10 years in prison, just days after ordering a partial mobilisation. The announcement of the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists on Wednesday sparked protests across Russia and a fresh exodus out of the country. A [...]
The first ever wrestler from Seychelles, Justin Pierre Robert, known as JPR, is the new UK wrestling champion. JPR defeated British wrestling champion Monti Schemi known as Mustafa Khan in the UK wrestling championship on August 4 at the Wrestlebration 13 event. JPR who was contacted by local media said, "My mother is from Baie [...]
Prince Albert of Monaco together with Sylvia Earle, one of the philanthropists in climate change, expect to visit Aldabra atoll in the coming weeks to see how they can promote one of Seychelles World Heritage sites, President Wavel Ramkalwan told reporters on Saturday. Ramkalawan was speaking to reporters after his return to Seychelles on the meeting he [...]
Climate activists protested in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Friday ahead of a climate summit in the city next month. Kinshasa is due to host the pre-COP27 talks in October, before the main summit begins in Egypt in November. But the pre-COP27 meeting comes after the DRC put 27 oil and gas [...]
Gary Pouponneau has become the third Seychellois professional golfer after qualifying as a Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) class A player in South Africa. Pouponneau, who is the director of golf at the Constance Lemuria Golf Course, on the second most populated island of Praslin, successfully completed a three-year course at the Bryanston Country Club in [...]
A petition by the Seychelles Human Rights Commission, the Ombudsman and the Bar Association of Seychelles has been lodged with the Constitutional Court for a review of the constitutionality of the 10th amendment to the Constitution. The 10th amendment to the Constitution empowers the Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF) to carry out internal law enforcement in Seychelles [...]
A ban on fishing certain fish species that have not reached maturation will start on October 1 as the Seychelles Fishing Authority takes measures to protect the fish stocks on the Mahe plateau. The ban will apply to red snappers (bourgeois) and groupers (job fish), targeted by hand line fishery and for rabbitfish, parrotfish, and [...]
Moscow-held regions of Ukraine began voting Friday on whether to become part of Russia, in referendums that Kyiv and its allies have condemned as an unlawful land grab. The referendums in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been roundly dismissed as a sham by Kyiv's [...]
