A parking ticket or seatbelt fine is about to become a lot more expensive in Seychelles.Officials in the island nation are seeking to lower the number of minor traffic offences by increasing penalties for the first time in 25 years — as much as 10-fol…
The first phase of the extension and rehabilitation project of the Seychelles’ Port Victoria will start next year with dredging and construction of a 300 metre-quay, said a top official.The Minister of Transport, Anthony Derjacques, told a press confer…
A 34-year-old French national was charged with murder by the Seychelles Supreme Court on Tuesday after the death of the man’s girlfriend.According to a police communique released after the incident, the 32-year-old girlfriend, also a French national, w…
The National Assembly has approved the ratification of a bilateral agreement with the United States which supporters say will help increase surveillance capabilities in the Seychelles’ waters.Twenty-nine members voted this week to ratify the agreement …
The Seychelles’ health authority will be conducting a serological survey to measure the COVID-19 immunity level among the population, a top health official said on Thursday.A serological survey is a test conducted on a sample of the population to detec…
BENI, DR CONGO, – DR Congo’s government mistakenly announced Saturday that another volcano had erupted, later admitting it was a false alarm, with the scare coming a week after Mount Nyiragongo roared back into life, causing devastation and sparking a …
Britain has confirmed yet another spike in new COVID-19 infections, with close to 4,200 cases identified across the country Friday, the highest daily number in two months. Seventy five percent of the new cases in Britain are believed to be infections w…
NAIROBI – The family of an American investor of Somali origin whose body was found with torture wounds days after he went missing in Nairobi wants Kenya’s director of public prosecutions to run a separate investigation from one being done by police.In …