Maintaining regional stability between Madagascar and Comoros was among the achievements made during the one-year presidency of Seychelles over the Council of Ministers of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), Seychelles' Vice President said. Vice President Vincent Meriton, the outgoing IOC president, spoke at the 34th Council of Ministers held at Savoy Resort and Spa in the [...]
Suicide attackers struck outside the US embassy in the Tunisian capital on Friday, killing a police officer, wounding six other people and once again shaking a city repeatedly hit by jihadist violence. The latest attack came despite a state of emergency imposed in the North African nation in 2015 following a string of bloody assaults [...]
Dredging work in Seychelles' Port Victoria can now be planned using highly accurate information after an electronic hydrographic survey data was handed over to the Ministry for Ports and Marine on Friday. New survey data taken around the islands of Praslin and La Digue will allow officials to update maps that in some cases are [...]
Seychelles is intensifying its fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism after passing and signing new legislation this week. President Danny Faure assented to the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Act 2020, and the Beneficial Ownership Act 2020, in a ceremony at State House, Victoria, on Thursday. The bills were [...]
International war crimes judges ruled on Thursday that a probe into wartime abuses in Afghanistan must go ahead, including looking into possible atrocities committed by US forces, as they overturned a previous court ruling. The call was hailed by human rights organisations as a "pivotal moment" for victims of the central Asian country's 18-year-war since [...]
At the end of December last year, the Board of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) announced that it would maintain its loosened monetary policy stance for the first quarter of 2020, given the modest inflation outlook in the short to medium term, keeping the central rate at 5.0 per cent for the first quarter of [...]
Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum ordered the abduction of two of his daughters and subjected his former wife to a "campaign of fear and intimidation", forcing her to flee to London with their two children, according to a British court ruling made public on Thursday. Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, 45, fled the [...]
The efforts Seychelles is making to reduce plastic waste in the environment was highlighted in a discussion between the Secretary General of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions and President Danny Faure on Wednesday. Seychellois Rolph Payet, who is heading the first meeting of the Basel Convention's Plastic Waste Partnership in his homeland, told reporters that "Seychelles [...]
Victoria, the capital city of Seychelles - also referred to as the smallest capital of the world – has over the years gone through several transformations. Through the passage of time, the city has seen a boom in construction but one thing has been kept as much as possible and that is its green landscape. [...]
Two foreign trawlers packed with over $33 million worth of heroin and crystal methamphetamine were seized in Sri Lanka's biggest-ever drugs bust at sea, a navy spokesman said Thursday. Troops found 400 kilogrammes (about 880 pounds) of heroin and 100 kilogrammes (about 220 pounds) of the drug "ice" on board the two vessels, spokesman Isuru [...]
