Digital microwave systems were introduced to the Seychelles in 1992 and Cable & Wireless also offers other services from its Seychelles Radio coast station.

The U. S. Ambassador to Mauritius also is accredited to Seychelles.

Executive Outcomes employees, Captains Daniele Zanata and Raif St Clair ( who was also involved in the aborted Seychelles Coup of 1981 ), fought on behalf of the MPLA against UNITA in the 1990s in violation of the Lusaka Protocol.

A High Commission could also be charged with the last phase of a decolonization, as in the crown colony of the Seychelles, granted autonomy on 12 November 1970: the last Governor, Colin Hamilton Allen ( 1921 – 1993 ) stayed on as the only colonial High Commissioner from 1 October 1975, when self-rule under the Crown was granted, until 28 June 1976 when the Seychelles became an independent republic within the Commonwealth.

The Common Cuckoo has also occurred as a vagrant in countries including Barbados, the United States of America, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Indonesia, Palau, Seychelles, Taiwan and China.

Colonies were also founded in the Indian Ocean, on the Île de Bourbon ( Réunion, 1664 ), Isle de France ( Mauritius, 1718 ), and the Seychelles ( 1756 ).

But these orchids can also be found on the Comoros, the Seychelles, and the Mascarenes.

It is also possible that species from Mauritius, Comores and Seychelles might be included.

These were also the first Seychelles issues to begin depicting Queen Elizabeth II.

This series was also issued by the Central Bank of Seychelles when it took over full responsibility in the same year.

It formerly also was found on St Pierre, Chauve-Souris and Ile Ronde ( Round Island, an islet near Praslin ) in the Seychelles group, but has become extinct on these islands.

The fruit, which requires 6 – 7 years to mature and a further two years to germinate, is sometimes also referred to as the Sea Coconut, Love Nut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seychelles Nut.

The species has also been introduced to the Seychelles, and onto the Hawaiian Islands, where it is established on both sides of O ' ahu, both sides of the Big Island, and on Maui ( McKeown, 1993 ).

This day gecko also shares its habitat with Phelsuma astriata which may be eaten or pursued by the Seychelles giant day gecko if it attempts to reside on the same trees.

Its discovery also adds to the evidence that Madagascar and the Seychelles separated from the Indian landmass sometime well after the breakup of Gondwana had started.

Colonies were also founded in the Indian Ocean, on the Île de Bourbon ( Réunion, 1664 ), Isle de France ( now Mauritius, 1718 ), and the Seychelles ( 1756 ).

At the time of Zaghloul's arrival in the Seychelles, a number of other prominent anti-imperialist leaders were also exiled there, including Mohamoud Ali Shire, the 20th Sultan of the Somali Warsangali Sultanate, with whom Zaghloul would soon develop a rapport.

The Mauritian currency also circulated in the Seychelles until 1914, when it was replaced by the Seychellois rupee at par.

Seychellois Creole, also known as Kreol or Seselwa, is the French-based creole language of the Seychelles.

The city is also home to the national stadium, the International School Seychelles and a polytechnic.

This is because it reduces jet-lag as any flight that leaves Seychelles at night will get to most Western European cities in the early morning and vice-versa from the European cities to the Seychelles, and it also provides sufficient rest for operating crew ).

Natasha Lesperance, of the Youth Service Bureau, praised the vision of targeting young people to build a modern future for the Seychelles nation with telecommunications and believed that internet cafés opening in different districts would " wean young people and children away from all vices in society, which will eventually help to build a vibrant knowledge-based society that can stand shoulder to shoulder with any developed nation in the world ".

By comparison, estimates of the population density per square kilometer of the Indian Ocean's other island microstates ranged from 241 ( Seychelles ) to 690 ( Maldives ) in 1993.

In 1985 Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles agreed to admit Comoros as the fourth member of the Indian Ocean Commission ( IOC ), an organization established in 1982 to encourage regional cooperation.

They have been sighted, for example, in the Mediterranean, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean around the Seychelles.

Since Seychelles ' independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the old near-subsistence level.

The global recession and piracy in the Indian Ocean hit Seychelles hard in 2009, with the GDP projected to contract by 7. 5 percent.

Seychelles follows a policy of what it describes as " positive " nonalignment and strongly supports the principle of reduced superpower presence in the Indian Ocean.

The Seychelles government is one of the proponents of the Indian Ocean zone of peace concept and it has promoted an end to the United States presence on Diego Garcia.

Seychelles claims the French-owned Glorioso Islands in the Indian Ocean.

In an effort to reduce increasing piracy in the nearby region, Seychelles requested Indian Navy to carry out anti piracy operations in her waters.

** The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands ( on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches are returned to the Seychelles ).

The distribution of atolls around the globe is instructive: most of the world's atolls are in the Pacific Ocean ( with concentrations in the Tuamotu Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Coral Sea Islands, and the island groups of Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tokelau ) and Indian Ocean ( the Atolls of the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, the Chagos Archipelago and the Outer Islands of the Seychelles ).

The Seychelles is a small island nation located in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar and about east of Kenya.

The Seychelles is part of the granitic Mascarene Plateau which broke off from the Indian Plate about 65 mya.

They have colonised most of the world's oceanic islands, reaching eastern Polynesia and the Chatham Islands in the Pacific, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Réunion in the Indian Ocean, and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean.

Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands are home to ten endemic families of flowering plants ; eight are endemic to Madagascar ( Asteropeiaceae, Didymelaceae, Didiereaceae, Kaliphoraceae, Melanophyllaceae, Physenaceae, Sarcolaenaceae, and Sphaerosepalaceae ), one to Seychelles ( Mesdusagynaceae ) and one to the Mascarene Islands ( Psiloxylaceae ).

Aldabra, the world's second largest coral atoll, is in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that form part of the Seychelles.

The Aldabra Atoll, along with Des Roches and Farquhar, was part of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 until Seychelles independence in 1976.

At the close of the Napoleonic Wars, most of France's colonies were restored to it by Britain, notably Guadeloupe and Martinique in the West Indies, French Guiana on the coast of South America, various trading posts in Senegal, the Île Bourbon ( Réunion ) in the Indian Ocean, and France's tiny Indian possessions ; though Britain finally annexed Saint Lucia, Tobago, the Seychelles, and the Isle de France ( now Mauritius ).

It has invaded ecosystems from Hawaii to Seychelles, and formed supercolonies on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

It has been introduced into a wide range of tropical and subtropical environments including Caribbean islands, some Indian Ocean islands ( Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Cocos Islands and the Christmas Islands ) and some Pacific islands ( New Caledonia, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Okinawa, Vanuatu, Micronesia and the Galapagos archipelago )

The Western Indo-Pacific covers the western and central portion of the Indian Ocean, including the Africa's east coast, the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and Andaman Sea, as well as the coastal waters surrounding Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarene Islands, Maldives, and Chagos Archipelago.