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Seychelles met together with high-level government officials of the fisheries sector from Tanzania, Kenya and Comoros to discuss draft proposals for the upcoming Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) meeting, seeking these countries' consideration for co-sponsoring proposals. The fisheries minister from Seychelles, Comoros and Tanzania, and the fisheries principal secretary of Kenya met in the second Ministerial Summit of Fisheries Ministers of [...]

Seychelles will support Mauritius' bid to secure a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the period 2025-2026 as well as and its candidature for the Executive Board of UNESCO for the term 2023-2027, said a top official on Thursday. Foreign affairs minister Sylvestre Radegonde made the statement at the end of the 13th Session of the [...]

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that dengue and other diseases caused by mosquito-borne arboviruses were spreading far faster and further amid climate change, warning global outbreaks could be looming. Experts with the United Nations health agency sounded the alarm over swelling numbers of cases of dengue and chikungunya, and warned new epidemics of zika [...]

Italian ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a dominant player in his nation's politics for decades, was on Wednesday set to spend the night in intensive care after being admitted to a cardiac unit for reported respiratory problems. The 86-year-old media mogul and senator, who has been in and out of the hospital in recent years, was [...]

CNN political contributor Maggie Haberman explains the reasoning behind Donald Trump's attacks on the judge and his family during a speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort after he was arraigned on felony charges. Source: Latest CNN News

New changes in the Seychelles Electronic Border System allow visitors to the island nation more time to submit their forms, ensuring that necessary approvals before traveling to Seychelles are acquired. Previously a traveller had up to five days before travelling to make their application online. The pre-travel application window has been extended to 10 days as [...]

Israeli police arrested more than 350 people after clashes erupted inside Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque early Wednesday when officers entered to dislodge "agitators" in a move denounced by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. Palestinian militants responded with rocket fire into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, prompting retaliatory Israeli air strikes. The violence came with [...]

Work to develop a national policy on virtual assets has started with the aim of putting in place a legal framework in Seychelles to help local authorities better supervise this activity and protect the public, said a top government official on Tuesday. Seychelles' finance minister, Naadir Hassan, made the statement to members of the National [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit China from Wednesday, hoping to dissuade Beijing from supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine but without alienating a crucial trade and geopolitical player. "China is the only country in the world capable of having an immediate and radical impact on the conflict, in one direction or the other," an official [...]

Seychelles will receive more funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB) next year to maintain its economic stability, said a top official of the bank on Monday. The statement was made to reporters by the executive director of the AfDB, Jonathan Nzayikorera, after meeting with Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan. He said that AfDB is discussing how to [...]