The Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Seychelles is mourning the passing of its longest serving member of the clergy, Father Gustave Lafortune. Lafortune, who was 86, died on Friday after dedicating 60 years of his life as a priest. He celebrated his diamond jubilee on June 30 this year, although he officially retired [...]
Four young boxers from Seychelles will leave the country at the beginning of November to participate in a youth tournament in Rostov-on-don in Russia. The boxers all aged 16 were presented with their air tickets in a ceremony at Victoria Mayor's office in the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Rostov, Yury Ovchinnikov, the Russian [...]
King Charles III embarks Tuesday on a four-day trip to Kenya, his first visit as monarch to a Commonwealth nation, where any comments he makes on Britain's colonial past will be closely scrutinised. Charles is expected to tackle "the more painful aspects" of the UK's historic relationship with Kenya -- namely the period of British [...]
Scientists in Brazil, the world's second-biggest consumer of cocaine, have announced the development of an innovative new treatment for addiction to the drug and its powerful derivative crack: a vaccine. Dubbed "Calixcoca," the test vaccine, which has shown promising results in trials on animals, triggers an immune response that blocks cocaine and crack from reaching [...]
Seychelles and the Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO) discussed the need to analyse scientific data regarding suitable food types for the Indian Ocean region and the concern about excessive imports during a recent visit of an FAO representative. According to the Department of Agriculture, Charles Boliko, the FAO representative for Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles, led a [...]
The Seychelles International Financial Services Association (SIFSA)has said it is very disheartening that the European Union has re-added Seychelles to its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes known as the blacklist. The chairman of SIFSA, Maarco Francis, told SNA that the decision was taken despite meaningful discussions between Seychelles and its EU partners. "Over [...]
EU leaders will on Thursday debate calling for "pauses" in Israel's war with Hamas to get aid into Gaza, as the bloc weighs how to respond to another conflict as fighting rages in Ukraine. The European Union has struggled for both unity and influence in the face of the crisis that has engulfed the Middle [...]
The Seychelles National Assembly ratified an agreement with the European Union that will allow persons arrested for drug and weapons trafficking off the coast of Somalia by a member state of the EU, to be tried, prosecuted and imprisoned in Seychelles. The motion for the Assembly to ratify the agreement signed by Seychelles on August [...]
Nigeria's Supreme Court validated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's election victory on Thursday, dismissing the opposition's final appeal against his mandate five months after he came to office. Most Nigerian elections have ended up in legal battles since Africa's most populous nation emerged from military rule in 1999, but the Supreme Court has never overturned a [...]
The Seychelles National Assembly on Wednesday approved proposed amendments to the Prevention of Terrorism Act in keeping with Eastern Southern Africa Anti-money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) recommendations. The proposed amendment bill was presented to the the National Assembly by the Minister for Internal Affairs, Errol Fonseka, who said that it was important to make the amendments to [...]
