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Consumers dealing with virtual assets or virtual asset service providers not registered nor authorised under any law, especially Seychelles laws, are advised to remain cautious about the risks and potential financial loss and damage that can be incurred.   The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Registrar of Companies (ROC)  issued the caution in a joint press communique and said [...]

Seychelles' Vice President Ahmed Afif attended the inauguration of the new Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, which took place on November 17 in Male, State House said on Monday. Muizzi took oath as the eighth President of Maldives at the Special Assembly of the People's Majlis held at Republic Square. His Vice President Hussain Mohamed Latheef also [...]

Rising sea levels threaten to swamp the Maldives and the Indian Ocean archipelago is already out of drinking water, but the new president says he has scrapped plans to relocate citizens. Instead, President Mohamed Muizzu promises the low-lying nation will beat back the waves through ambitious land reclamation and building islands higher -- policies, however, [...]

The latest negotiations toward a global plastic treaty concluded late Sunday with disagreement about how the pact should work and frustration from environment groups over delays and lack of progress. Negotiators spent a week at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi haggling over a draft treaty to tackle the growing problem of plastic [...]

Seychelles' citizens living abroad will have the chance to get their passports made without having to travel to the island nation, said a top government official last week.   The statement was made by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Immigration, Errol Fonseka, when answering a question from a member of the National Assembly, on [...]

November 19 marked two years since the prominent Seychellois businessman Mukesh Valabhji and his wife Laura, a lawyer, appeared in the Supreme Court, after being arrested a day earlier by police on suspicion of money laundering of $50 million. The couple have been on remand since. The case is related to $50 million granted to [...]

With the aim to keep Seychelles in the international limelight as a destination, Tourism Seychelles participated in the 2023 World Travel Market (WTM) in London and other side events. According to Tourism Seychelles in a recent communique, the marketing arm of the Ministry of Tourism, over 4,000 exhibitors took part in the World Travel Market London 2023, which took place from November 6 to 8. [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there were "too many civilian losses" in Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, his office said Sunday. Israel has vowed to destroy the Palestinian militant group after it carried out the deadliest attack in the country's history on October 7. About 1,200 people, mostly civilians, [...]

Liberian leader and football legend George Weah has conceded defeat to opposition leader Joseph Boakai after a tight presidential run-off, saying it was "time to put national interest above personal interest". The latest and nearly complete results on Saturday showed Boakai leading with nearly 51 percent of the votes in Liberia, Africa's oldest republic, which [...]

A Seychellois woman living in Berlin, Germany, is writing a second book in which people share their nightly dreams in word and through photographs and is now in Seychelles looking for the participation of her compatriots. Vanessa Nicette, a Seychellois on her father's side, has been documenting people's dreams for over 10 years and she [...]