Seychelles expects to reopen its cruise ship season in August when cruise ships with a maximum capacity of 300 passengers will be allowed to visit the islands. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism Sylvestre Radegonde announced the decision Tuesday following a meeting with partners related to cruise ships to discuss whether the country was ready [...]
Seychelles has expressed its disappointment over the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission's failure to adopt revised measures geared toward the rebuilding of yellowfin tuna stock in the Indian Ocean during a special session last week. The March 8-12 special session discussed the sustainability of fishing yellowfin tuna and addressed deficiencies in the harvest control rule for [...]
Maxim Behar, the Honorary Consul General of Seychelles in Bulgaria, made a guest appearance in the television show "In Development" on Bloomberg TV Bulgaria with host Veronika Denizova. Mr. Behar analysed and clarified more about the advantages of Seychelles as a tourist destination in 2021 and noted the forecasts that by the end of April, [...]
The Vatican on Monday said the Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions despite their "positive elements", saying it was impossible for God to "bless sin". The powerful Vatican office responsible for defending church doctrine, The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), issued a response to the question, "Does [...]
Countries should continue using AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization said on Monday, after many governments halted rollouts due to blood clot fears. "We do not want people to panic and we would, for the time being, recommend that countries continue vaccinating with AstraZeneca," WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a press briefing. Her [...]
Seychelles has amended legislation to address deficiencies identified in the mutual evaluation report published in 2018 by the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group. The amendments to six laws were approved by the National Assembly last week for the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act; the Extradition Act; the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering [...]
A technology company in Seychelles -- Space 95 -- has developed a contact tracing app to help the island nation's Ministry of Health keep track of and control the COVID-19 situation. Called 'Contak', the QR code-based tracing application allows a user to register places they have been, facilitating the work of contact tracers at the [...]
Somalia on Monday received its first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, destined for frontline workers and those most at risk from Covid-19, the government said in a statement. The conflict-torn nation has seen coronavirus cases soar 77 percent over the past month, to 9,190, while deaths have more than doubled to a [...]
Libya's new interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah will be sworn in Monday to lead the war-torn country's transition to elections in December, after years of chaos and division. The North African nation descended into conflict after dictator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled and killed in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011, resulting in multiple forces vying [...]
Two giant Aldabra tortoises living in a zoo in the north of France are being repatriated to their native Seychelles, said an official from the Environment Ministry. The director for Biodiversity Conservation confirmed to SNA that the ministry has been in contact with an international organization since February last year. “An organisation called REWILD contacted [...]
