An eruption of new coronavirus cases in South Korea, Iran and Chinese hospitals and prisons rekindled concerns Friday about the spread of a deadly disease that has killed more than 2,200 people. The World Health Organization warned nations could face a serious problem if they fail to "hit hard now" against the virus, which has [...]
Seychelles and the European Council adopted the new EU-Seychelles Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement on Thursday and are expected to sign it next week, said the fisheries ministry. The progress on the agreement will come as good news for workers in the sector, who say they have seen their workloads drop in recent weeks. Both parties [...]
The government of Seychelles plans to remove the Value Added Tax (VAT) from all food commodities as part of measures to reduce the cost of living, President Danny Faure said in his State of the Nation address on Thursday. Faure said that the cost of living is a concern for everyone and the government has taken many [...]
Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will be charged with the murder of his estranged wife, who was gunned down ahead of his inauguration in 2017, police said Thursday, as the beleaguered premier announced he would quit by the end of July. Lilopelo Thabane, 58, was killed in June 2017 by unknown assailants on the outskirts [...]
On a plain suburban street in Seychelles, far from the idyllic coastline and luxury resorts pampering honeymooners and paradise-seekers, heroin addicts queue anxiously for their daily dose of methadone. It is a scene few outsiders would associate with the tropical nirvana adrift in the Indian Ocean, and one rarely, if ever, glimpsed by tourists as [...]
Three weeks ago the Chinese community across the world welcomed and celebrated the Chinese New Year or the Chinese Lunar Calendar. Ahead of the island nation’s 250th anniversary in August, SNA looks at 5 interesting facts about the Chinese community in Seychelles – 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean. Chinese arrive on the [...]
Seychelles is disappointed that the European Union has added the country to the EU's list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, said a government official on Wednesday. In a press release on Tuesday, the European Council said that Seychelles has been blacklisted because it has a "harmful preferential tax regime and the jurisdictions along with [...]
A first-of-its-kind project in Seychelles will show an integrated approach to the management of marine, coastal and terrestrial ecosystems of the island nation, stretching from mountaintop to coastline. The $31 million project, from Ridge to Reef, will be implemented over six years. It is co-financed by Seychelles' government, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and civil [...]
Swarms of locusts which are wreaking havoc across East Africa have now arrived in South Sudan, the government said Tuesday, threatening more misery in one of the world's most vulnerable nations. Billions of desert locusts, some in swarms the size of Moscow, have already chomped their way through Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan [...]
An agreement to carry out seismic research in the Mascarene Plateau is being reviewed after the company pulled out due to technical reasons, said a top official. Data was to have been collected by Spectrum Geo, a United Kingdom-based company, to give insight into the oil and gas potential of the plateau, which is jointly [...]
