Improving the ability for defence forces to work with each other as well as better comprehending and practicing validated drills are the aims of a 10-day joint military exercise between the Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF) and the Indian Army which kicked off on Tuesday, according to an SDF press release. Dubbed 'Lamitye-2022' - 'lamitye' being [...]
The Kremlin said on Tuesday it would like the ongoing negotiations with Kyiv aimed at ending Russia's military action in Ukraine to have more substance. "There is some kind of process happening. We would like more active and substantial (talks)," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. Russia's position was "well-known to the Ukrainian side" because [...]
Using the ocean as a living laboratory as well as future developments in the Blue Economy in Seychelles were discussed in a meeting between Seychellois officials and the UN Special Envoy for the Ocean on Monday. Peter Thompson, who came to Seychelles to launch the Ocean Race Summit yesterday, met with three ministers from Seychelles; [...]
Rich countries must end their oil and gas production by 2034 to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius and give poorer nations time to replace fossil fuel income, according to a report released Tuesday. The 70-page analysis from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research comes as nearly 200 nations kicks off a two-week [...]
Fifty-one Indian fishermen caught fishing illegally in Seychelles' waters will leave on Tuesday afternoon on a special flight to India organised by the Indian High Commission – with only the ships' captains staying behind to face the island state's justice system. The sailors worked on board three vessels arrested on March 8 in a joint operation by a Dornier [...]
The Central African Republic on Monday kicked off national reconciliation talks in a bid to bring peace to the troubled country -- but no rebel groups were invited and the opposition is boycotting the forum. President Faustin Archange Touadera promised in late 2020, following his controversial re-election, to hold the so-called Republican Dialogue for reconciliation. [...]
Work to establish a Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights kicked off in Seychelles during an Ocean Race Summit held on Monday at the Eden Bleu Hotel. The Ocean Race Summit Seychelles, which is part of a series of 12 races, was organised by The Ocean Race in collaboration with the Danny Faure Foundation, set up [...]
Seychelles has agreed to sign a bilateral labour agreement with Nepal which would ease the recruitment practices between the two countries and ensure the protection of the rights of Nepalese workers in Seychelles. Once the agreement is finalised, Seychelles' officials have been invited to sign the agreement with their Nepalese counterparts on Mount Everest in [...]
Ukraine has rejected an ultimatum to surrender the besieged port city of Mariupol to Russian forces, its deputy prime minister told Ukrainian media Monday. "There can be no talk of surrendering weapons. We have already informed the Russian side of this," Iryna Vereshchuk told Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. "It's a deliberate manipulation and it's a real [...]
Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that Russia had bombed a school sheltering 400 people in the besieged port of Mariupol, as Moscow claimed that it had again fired hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, the second time it had used the next-generation weapon on its neighbour. Turkey said that the two sides were close to a deal [...]
