Prawn farming and extensive agriculture on Coetivy Island are set to restart in a bid to make Seychelles less dependent on food importation. The chief executive of the Islands Development Company (IDC), Glenny Savy, told a press conference that a Belgian company that was working with the previous prawn farm on the island has [...]
France has eased the health control measures at its borders for travellers going to and from Seychelles by moving the island nation from the orange COVID-19 list to the green list. With the change that took effect on March 14, a traveller is only required to provide proof of being fully vaccinated upon arrival in [...]
The UN Security Council voted Tuesday to prolong its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan for one more year, after Russia and China chose to abstain. The Council's 13 other members all voted in favor of the resolution, which extends the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until March 15, 2023 at its current level of [...]
Green turtle recovery on Seychelles' Aldabra atoll - a UNESCO world heritage site - is continuing to increase and the most prominent growth is at Settlement Beach, according to data from over 50 years of monitoring published recently in a study. Since a ban on the hunt of sea turtles was introduced in 1968, the [...]
A trio of eastern European leaders met Ukraine's president in his besieged capital Tuesday, in a defiant act of solidarity as Russian forces pressed in and air strikes claimed yet more lives in the city under curfew. As talks ground on between Moscow and Kyiv in a bid to halt the devastation, the White House [...]
Kyiv will impose a 35-hour curfew from Tuesday night amid a "difficult and dangerous moment" after several Russian strikes, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The announcement came as Russia launched fresh attacks in Ukraine's capital, which has nearly been encircled by Moscow's troops in the third week of the invasion and that has lost an estimated [...]
Britain on Tuesday imposed an additional 35 percent tariff on a swathe of Russian imports, from vodka to steel, and banned exports of luxury goods over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "We want to cause maximum harm to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's war machine while minimising the impact on UK businesses," the Department for International Trade [...]
Seychelles' environment ministry has called on the island nation to respect a ban on the use and importation of balloons and has said that punitive action will be taken against those who fail to comply. The director for waste, enforcement and permit, Nanette Laure, told a press conference on Tuesday that "since September of last [...]
Due to an anticipated global economic crisis as a result of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the social welfare agency in Seychelles is putting in place measures to assist lower-income earners, a senior official said on Monday. The Agency for Welfare Protection (ASP) has reviewed its internal procedures and, as of March 14, decided [...]
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to an influx of refugees into the border town of Berehove in the Transcarpathia region, and an exodus of its ethnic-Hungarian population fleeing conscription. Around half of Berehove's population of 22,000 is ethnic-Hungarian, the bilingual street signs, architecture and historical plaques testifying to its Magyar heritage. But despite its [...]
