Seychellois citizens travelling to Europe's Schengen area for business or tourism purposes will, by the end of 2021, have to pay $8 (SCR106) per adult under a new visa waiver programme. The programme under the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is a fully electronic system, which allows and keeps track of visitors who [...]
The United States' financial chief on Thursday told Swedish teen Greta Thunberg to go study before calling for a fossil fuel halt, prompting the climate campaigner to reply it doesn't "take a degree" to understand the science. The spat between US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Thunberg again highlighted the tensions over climate change at [...]
Transparency International said Thursday that Seychelles has earned the highest mark in the sub-Saharan region in its Corruption Perception Index survey of 2019. The 115-island nation in the western Indian Ocean is ranked 27th on the new Index with a score of 66 points out of 100, the same as in the 2018 Index when [...]
The 51 Seychellois students studying in China are safe from a viral outbreak sweeping the country as long as they stay in isolation and follow the right precautionary measures, a top official said on Thursday. The chief executive of the Agency for National Human Resource Development (ANHRD), Nadia Lauricourt, told a press conference that for now [...]
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday his administration was preparing to add a "couple of countries" to the controversial list of states whose citizens are subject to travel bans or severe restrictions on entry to the United States. "We are adding a couple of countries to it. We have to be safe. Our country has [...]
As the news begins its charge into 2020, SNA looks back at the five most-read articles of 2019. The entire SNA team thanks all of our readers in our great island nation as well as newshounds from around the globe. We hope you will keep following news and sunny feature stories from Seychelles! 5. [...]
Lebanon faces a "catastrophe", Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Wednesday after his newly unveiled cabinet held its first meeting to tackle the twin challenges of a tenacious protest movement and a nosediving economy. Diab, the successor to Saad Hariri who quit as prime minister in late October, vowed to meet demands from the street but [...]
The UN Security Council called Tuesday on Libya's warring sides to quickly reach a ceasefire that would pave the way for a political process aimed at ending conflict in the oil-rich state. The United Nations meeting followed up on a weekend Libya summit held in Berlin, which saw the formation of a military commission that [...]
The group Ocean Project Seychelles has launched a new campaign targeting the use of balloons on the beaches which pose a significant threat to marine life. The campaign '#SeyNoToBalloons' is to raise awareness about the negative impacts of balloons on the environment and highlight eco-friendly alternatives. The project manager of Ocean Project Seychelles, Kristina Gurova, [...]
A nationwide campaign is under way in Seychelles to sterilise dogs and cats ahead of a new law for the control and protection of dogs that goes into effect March 1. The campaign started last Thursday and over nine days the group plans to sterilise and microchip over 1,400 animal on the three main islands [...]
