The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has given the approval for a new payment service provider to operate in the island nation with a company aiming to bring e-money as their first product. "The company, Nebula FinTech Limited, made their application in September 2022 and after reviewing their documents, CBS has approved their licence to [...]
A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth complications, despite maternal mortality rates dropping by a third in 20 years, the United Nations said Thursday. Rates fell significantly between 2000 and 2015 but largely stagnated between 2016 and 2020 -- and in some regions have even reversed, the UN said. The overall [...]
Seychelles' relations with the Russian Federation date back to the Soviet Union period of Russian history when the Soviet government established diplomatic relations with Seychelles on June 30,1976, the day after the island nation was given independence by the British government. A year later, when the then Prime Minister France-Albert Rene led a coup d'état [...]
The UN Development Programme proposed on Wednesday reducing the debt of 52 low and middle-income countries, two days before G20 finance ministers meet in India. The countries which are either in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress, account for more than 40 percent of the world’s poorest people and have trouble maintaining [...]
New video and images verified by CNN shows dozens of coffins containing the bodies of Russian fighters who had reportedly been fighting with Putin's private force the Wagner group. The Wagner chief is accusing the Russian defense ministry of treason for alleged failure to provide his troops with enough ammunition. Source: Latest CNN News
Key priority areas that need a unified front in international forums and could considerably advance Africa's fisheries and aquaculture sector were identified in a workshop organised by the African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) in Seychelles. In a press communique on Friday, the organisation said that the aim of the three-day workshop was to review [...]
Powerful tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through parts of Madagascar on Wednesday, killing four people on the Indian Ocean island, disaster management authorities said. A 27-year-old man drowned in rising sea waters on Tuesday just before the storm, which packed winds of around 130 kilometres per hour (80 miles per hour), made landfall. But on Wednesday [...]
Maritime safety and security within the Indian Ocean are set to increase and will benefit Seychelles as two centres dealing with and coordinating maritime information exchange signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday. The MoU was signed by the director of the Seychelles-based Regional Coordination Operations Centre (RCOC), Sam Gonthier, and done virtually by the director [...]
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US President Joe Biden vows Russia will never see victory in Ukraine, delivering a major speech in Warsaw hours after Russia's Vladimir Putin said his country would continue its nearly year-long military offensive. Putin, in his annual state-of-the-nation address, accused the West of escalating the conflict and announced the Kremlin would suspend participation in the [...]
