Vaccinated visitors to Seychelles will no longer need a negative PCR test to travel to the island nation as of March 15, after the Ministry of Health revised the entry and stay conditions on Monday. Travellers to Seychelles who are "fully vaccinated," according to the ministry's advisory, are adults who have had two vaccine doses, typically, [...]
Finding solutions to manage coastal erosion and flooding at five sites in Seychelles was the focus of a meeting attended by government officials and environmentalists on Monday. The workshop considered the 'Coastal Modelling and Assessment of Potential Solutions for Coastal Defense and Adaptation Measures at Priority sites in Seychelles' study, focusing on two locations on Mahe and [...]
Mali says it has banned civilians from a border area where the disappearance of citizens from Mauritania -- blamed by social media on Malian troops -- has stoked tensions between the two neighbours. In a statement late Sunday issued after Mali dispatched envoys to Mauritania, government spokesman Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga announced, "The military authorities have [...]
Households across North Africa are rushing to stock up on flour, semolina and other staples as food prices rise following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, both key wheat exporters to the region. The scramble is worse coming just weeks before the start of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims traditionally break a dawn-to-dusk fast with [...]
A renowned visual artist and painter from Seychelles, Nigel Henri, has ventured into fashion in partnership with an Indonesian designer to improve the sale of his products amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Henri who specialises in acrylic paintings on canvas by recreating the Creole and underwater scenes is now producing clothes from on his paintings. He [...]
Russian forces inched towards Kyiv Saturday and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where officials said more than 1,500 people had been killed. Air raid sirens sounded Saturday in several cities, including the capital Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro and Kharkiv, according to Ukrainian media. More [...]
Seychellois female weightlifter, Clementina Agricole, has increased her chances to get a spot at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after winning a gold medal in the international open weightlifting championship in Mauritius. Agricole, a former Seychelles Sportswoman of the Year, clinched gold in the 59kg category with a total lift of 177kg -- 77kg [...]
The annual Seychelles Fashion Week will, for the first time this year, be held outside of the island nation with a debut at the Dubai Expo on March 16. The organiser of the event, Terry Carolla, told SNA that the move to Dubai will give more exposure to local designers and models as well showcasing [...]
Search and rescue at sea in Seychelles is expected to be much faster and more accurate with the introduction of new search and rescue software. The Search and Rescue Information System (SARIS) software has been set up at the search and rescue office of the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) prior to a five-day training [...]
Friday marks two years to the day since the World Health Organization first described Covid-19 as a pandemic, shaking countries into action as the disease ripped around the planet. The once-in-a-century pandemic has turned the world upside down, claiming more than six million lives and infecting at least 450 million people. But the WHO voiced [...]
