Pope Francis spent a calm night in hospital, a Vatican source said Thursday, a day after the 86-year-old was admitted with breathing difficulties and diagnosed with a respiratory infection. "The pope spent a good night" at Rome's Gemelli hospital, the source said, adding that there would be an update on his condition later in the [...]
Seychelles will be assisted with approximately $46.19 million under a newly negotiated Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) and $56.96 million under a new Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). IMF staff and the Seychellois authorities reached a staff-level agreement on a successor to the two facilities following a mission in Seychelles [...]
Improving the comprehension of fisheries management by authorities and other key stakeholders on ways to promote transparency and taking into account its benefits are among the aims of a regional workshop held in Seychelles. Dubbed "Promoting Transparency for Sustainable Marine Fisheries through Collective Actions in the South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) Region", the two-day workshop is [...]
Seychelles is the only liberal democracy in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, according to a newly published Democracy Report 2023 by the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. According to the V-Dem report entitled 'Defiance in the Face of Autocratisation', "liberal democracy embodies the importance of protecting individual and minority rights against both the [...]
Seychelles and Mauritius have signed an agreement to efficiently use the Seychelles Coastguard and its Mauritian counterpart to monitor the Joint Management Area (JMA) of the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean. The agreement was signed on Monday by Premode Neerunjun, cabinet secretary and head of the Mauritian civil service, who is the new co-chair of [...]
The Seychelles men's national football team on Tuesday won one out of two friendly matches against Bangladesh. The Seychelles' side won the second match 1-0 after losing the first game by the same score on Sunday. The team, led by coach Vivian Bothe, was without a win since November 2021 despite playing 10 games. [...]
Israel's hard-right government and opposition parties were set for a second day of talks Wednesday on controversial judiciary reforms that sparked a general strike and mass protests in the country's most severe domestic crisis in years. Scepticism remained high over the negotiations on the judicial overhaul, which would curtail the authority of the Supreme Court [...]
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday is expected to adopt a resolution calling for a top court to outline legal obligations related to climate change, an "unprecedented challenge of civilizational proportions." Pushed for years by Vanuatu and Pacific islander youth, the measure asks the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to lay out nations' obligations for [...]
Seychelles is set to become the first offshore jurisdiction to fully implement the Beneficiary Ownership (BO) Act and comply with international standards by April. The amendments made to the Beneficial Ownership Act in 2020 state that legal persons and legal arrangements are required to provide their Beneficial Ownership (BO) information to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) through [...]
There is a great need to make available information in Seychelles' fisheries industry more accessible and transfer it to the public in layman's terms, which will allow the information to be used in managing fisheries efficiently and sustainably, according to a new report. This was outlined in the Seychelles 2021 Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) report [...]