Some 40 countries on Monday called on Israel to lift sanctions it imposed on the Palestinian Authority earlier this month over its push to get the UN's top court to issue an advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation. On December 30, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution requesting an opinion from the International Court [...]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan is attending the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2023, currently being held at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), according to a press statement from State House on Tuesday. On Monday, the President and his delegation were present at the opening ceremony of ADSW together with many heads of state, high-level officials [...]
The Henley Passport Index ranks Seychelles as 29th out of 199 countries for the first quarter of 2023 for the ability of the country's passport holders to visit 153 countries visa free. The index is prepared by London-based Henley and Partners, a global citizenship and residence advisory firm. The firm uses data gathered from the International [...]
The government of the United States recently appointed a career diplomat and senior member of its Foreign Service to head its consular agency in the island nation of Seychelles and began the process of re-establishing a permanent U.S. diplomatic presence after over 27 years of absence. Previously, the U.S. established an embassy in Seychelles in [...]
China's population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed Tuesday, as the world's most populous nation faces a looming demographic crisis. The nation of 1.4 billion has seen birth rates plunge to record lows as its workforce ages, in a rapid decline that analysts warn could stymie [...]
Greece's last king, Constantine II, was laid to rest on Monday at the royal cemetery of Tatoi near Athens, after a private funeral service that drew dozens of European royals and a crowd of several hundreds. Constantine, who died last week aged 82, was a divisive figure in the country's history, and the government drew [...]
Researchers at the University of Zurich (UZH) have decoded the entire genome of the Seychelles' endemic Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigante), which will allow scientists to better study the diversity of the species. The statement was made by the director of Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance (IOTA), Rich Baxter, in an interview with SNA after the completion of the [...]
In 2022, Nature Seychelles outplanted 4,000 coral fragments, grown in 4 underwater nurseries in the Cousin Island Special Reserve Marine Protected Area (MPA), according to the environmental NGO. To get to this stage, the team at Nature Seychelles concentrated on building mid-water floating nurseries in 2021, collecting coral fragments, and stocking these in the nurseries. [...]
Nepal observed a day of mourning on Monday for the victims of the nation's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades, with 67 people confirmed killed in the plane crash. The Yeti Airlines ATR 72 plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces and burst into flames with 72 people on board as it approached the [...]
The Chinese community in Seychelles joined others in the country outside the National Museum of History to usher in the celebration of the start of the Year of the Rabbit at a bazaar on Saturday. The China Day event in the capital Victoria remade its appearance on the archipelago’s cultural calendar after a three-year absence [...]
