Two Spanish nationals died in Seychelles when their fishing vessel had an ammonia leak while on anchorage close to Port Victoria and local rescue services are still working to contain the leak, a top official said on Thursday. Jones Madeleine, the public relations officer of the Seychelles Fire and Rescue Services Agency, told reporters that they [...]
Seychellois Urny Mathiot, hailing from the central Mahe district of Mont Buxton, is a man of many talents - a painter, graphic artist, photographer and musician. Although fine art was his first love, he later ventured into graphics and photography and then came to music where he set up his own band "Kod Nwar" (Black [...]
The Supreme Court of Seychelles has further detained three out of the five persons accused in the ongoing illegal arms and ammunition case concerning primarily businessman Mukesh Valabhji and his wife Laura, while considering whether the two can meet without a lawyer to plan their defence. Apart from the Valabhji couple, three other persons have been [...]
The Seychelles National Biosecurity Agency has embarked on a regional project to boost the supply chain of healthy seeds and plants. The project, which aims at allowing livestock farmers to rely on their own animal feed production and improve cassava production, is being funded by the European Union and implemented in partnership with the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). [...]
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it would hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the global monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern. The UN agency is also working to change the name of the disease, which was long confined to Western and Central Africa until more [...]
The British government was to send a first plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy. A chartered plane was to leave one of London's airports overnight and land in Kigali on Tuesday, campaigners said, after UK judges rejected an appeal against the deportations. [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday assented to an amendment to the Constitution that gives the Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF) the right to enforce domestic law in relation to public security, environmental protection and maritime security. The amendment gives a fifth function to the military and enables it to work alongside the Seychelles Police outside of [...]
Seychelles' Environment Trust Fund has received more than $775,000 (SCR10 million) as voluntary contributions made by travellers to the island nation through the Seychelles Travel Authorisation Platform as of June 2022. The announcement was made in a press statement from the Ministry for Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment on Monday. Visitors to Seychelles are able to [...]
Spain was on Monday in the grips of a heatwave expected to reach "extreme" levels with France set to follow suit as meteorologists blame the unusually high seasonal temperatures on global warming. The "unusual" temperatures in the first-half of June come after Spain experienced its hottest May in at least 100 years, Ruben del Campo, [...]
An overladen ship crammed with thousands of sheep sank Sunday in Sudan's Red Sea port of Suakin drowning most animals on board but with all crew surviving, officials said. The livestock vessel was exporting the animals from Sudan to Saudi Arabia when it sank after several thousand more animals were loaded on board than it [...]
