The Seychelles Financial Services Authority and the Ministry of Finance are working on a policy to either prohibit or licence the incorporation of cryptocurrency trading platforms as International Business Companies (IBC) registered in the island nation. Several international investigations in cryptocurrency trading platforms scams have been traced back to Seychelles. The most recent incident has [...]
A first batch of 35,100 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines that are primarily meant for the island nation's youths arrived in Seychelles on Wednesday aboard a Qatar Airways flight. The consignment of vaccines was handed over to the chief executive of the Seychelles Health Care Agency, Danny Louange, by Nicholas Christian, the political and economic officer of [...]
More than 200,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Africa since the start of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally compiled from official records as of 1700 GMT. The 54 countries of the region may not have suffered as badly as other parts of the world -- at least according to the officially recorded [...]
The West African bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday that it feared potential delays in elections in Mali aimed at restoring civilian rule following a coup last year. In a statement, the group said it remained "worried by the lack of concrete action" to prepare for the vote, which has been promised for February 2022 by [...]
Seychelles will receive the first batch of Pfizer vaccines on Wednesday said President Wavel Ramkalwan on Tuesday in an interview. The 35,100 doses of the Pfizer vaccine -- a donation from the United States under the COVAX programme -- will kickstart the vaccination campaign for the island nation's youths on Friday. Seychelles, an archipelago in [...]
Seychelles has collected more revenue than anticipated in the first six months of 2021 thanks to a substantial increase in visitors to the island nation since March, said a top government official. The finance minister, Naadir Hassan, presented the mid-year budget review to the National Assembly on Tuesday. Hassan said that since Seychelles re-opened its [...]
South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday hailed the placement of his jailed predecessor Jacob Zuma on medical parole as opposition and other groups suspected it was a political move and demanded answers. Just 60 days into his 15-month jail term for defying an order to answer questions before graft investigators, prison authorities announced Sunday [...]
A report that examines the progress of tertiary education and its challenges in Seychelles shows that more funding goes into salaries rather than training in such educational institutions. The chief executive of the Tertiary Education Commission, Jean-Michel Domingue, presented the tertiary education indicator report for 2020 at a press conference last week "Institutions are getting [...]
Ethiopian Airlines said Monday its transport of weapons to Sudan was a "legal and commercial" shipment of hunting guns, after reports the cargo was confiscated by the authorities in Khartoum. Sudan's SUNA news agency reported that the weapons were seized at Khartoum airport on Saturday after being flown in on an Ethiopian Airlines passenger flight, [...]
The Seychelles Football Federation has confirmed that clubs from the island nation will not participate in competitions organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the 2021/2022 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a typical year the team that wins the premier league participates in the CAF Champions League while the Cup [...]
