The United Arab Emirates expects concrete results in the ongoing “missing $50 million” case being heard by the Supreme Court of Seychelles, the island nation’s foreign affairs minister said on Thursday. Sylvestre Radegonde made the statement during a press conference on the latest developments in Seychelles’ international relations. “The UAE is following the case closely [...]
Seychelles was added to the European Union's (EU) list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes in February 2020 and was upgraded to the grey list last October. Several pieces of legislation related to financial services and international business companies (IBCs) were amended in 2021 to ensure that the country complies with the EU's standards for [...]
The United States on Wednesday rejected Russia's key demand to bar Ukraine from NATO and said it believed Moscow was ready to invade but offered what it called a new "diplomatic path" out of the crisis. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would speak again in the coming days to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei [...]
After suddenly firing all his ministers over graft concerns, Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera reappointed most of them to a new cabinet on Wednesday. Chakwera sacked his entire 33-member cabinet on Monday, vowing to "confront all forms of lawless conduct by public officials". Hoxwever, a list of 12 ministerial appointments released by his office just after [...]
Madagascar has proposed a total of 23 sporting disciplines, including nine new events, for the 11th edition of the Indian Ocean Island Games that it will host in August 2023, the secretary general of the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (SOCGA) revealed on Tuesday. Alain Alcindor made the statement to reporters during a briefing on [...]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson braced Wednesday for a potentially damning report into lockdown-breaching parties, after the launch of a police inquiry dramatically upped the stakes. The report from an investigation by senior civil servant Sue Gray is complete, but has not yet been submitted to Downing Street, the government said. The explosive confirmation that [...]
Seychelles' overall quota for yellowfin tuna catch for 2022 has been reduced by 9,184 tonnes by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) as a payback provision for over-catch in 2020 by industrial longline fleets. Under IOTC Resolution 21/01, Seychelles qualified for a total yellowfin tuna allocation of 39,542 tonnes for 2022, covering catch from all [...]
Eight people were killed and dozens more injured in a crush outside a Cameroonian football stadium ahead of an Africa Cup of Nations match, officials said Tuesday. Cameroonian President Paul Biya ordered an investigation into the tragedy that occurred Monday as crowds attempted to enter the Olembe Stadium in the capital Yaounde to watch the [...]
Seychelles has maintained its position for the fourth consecutive year as the least corrupt country in Sub-Saharan Africa on Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and moved up four places globally. The CPI report, released on Tuesday, rates perception of corruption in the public sector using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is [...]
Supporters of Burkina Faso's new ruling junta were set to rally on Tuesday as France and the UN condemned the West African country's latest coup. Officers detained President Roch Marc Christian Kabore in the volatile state on Monday amid deepening anger at his handling of a jihadist insurgency. The country now lies in the hands [...]
