Seychelles will reopen to tourists from all over the world - with the exception of South Africa - on March 25, a top official said Monday. Visitors coming to the islands will only need a negative PCR test done within 72 hours prior to their arrival to the country. No quarantine will be needed and [...]
All the 279 Nigerian schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week were on Wednesday reunited with their parents, in an emotional event overshadowed by chaos and shooting by security forces, an AFP reporter saw. Angered by officials' insistence on a formal handover before parents could leave with their children, mobs began throwing stones at officials outside [...]
Reggae icon Bunny Wailer, who co-founded The Wailers with Bob Marley in the 1960s and helped make the catchy Jamaican beat a global phenomenon, died on Tuesday. He was 73. No cause of death was given. but the Jamaican culture ministry said Wailer had been hospitalized in Kingston since December. Wailer, who was born Neville [...]
A new Seychellois-owned company, EAST Services, will be transporting cargo to and from Seychelles starting on March 6, the company said. The first cargo is being flown into the island nation from Istanbul, Turkey, but EAST Services can ferry goods from all over the world. EAST (Euro African Star Transport) Services cargo is owned by [...]
Britain has called for the UN Security Council to meet Friday on Myanmar, diplomatic sources told AFP, as security forces have steadily stepped up their use of violence against anti-coup demonstrators in the Southeast Asian nation. Authorities fired live rounds and tear gas at protesters again on Tuesday, leaving at least three people critically injured [...]
Millions of coronavirus shots from the global Covax scheme have arrived in Nigeria, Angola and Kenya, as African countries ramp up their vaccine rollouts. Richer countries have surged ahead with vaccinations but many poorer countries are still awaiting deliveries, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn that the crisis cannot end unless everyone can [...]
The Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) recorded an increase in the poaching of the endemic coco de mer in the Vallee de Mai special reserve on Praslin for the year 2020 during restrictions on movement to curb the increase of COVID-19 infections. The Foundation which manages the site recorded 50 poaching incidents between April and August [...]
Four million doses of the latest Covid-19 vaccine to get US approval will be delivered across the country as early as Tuesday, a senior administration official said. The United States on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson's Covid vaccine for emergency use, boosting President Joe Biden's plan to battle the outbreak that has killed more than [...]
Seychelles will set up a register of extradition cases occurring in the island nation after the National Assembly approved a bill presented by the Minister of Finance on Tuesday. Naadir Hassan told members of the National Assembly that the proposed Extradition Amendment Bill, 2021, will address deficiencies identified in the mutual evaluation report published in [...]
A Seychellois team will manage the soon-to-be-relaunched prawn farm on Seychelles' Coetivy Island, the Island Development Company (IDC) said. The chief executive of the company said that Seychellois will manage the project, but that since prawn farming is labour extensive, foreign labour possibly from South East Asia will need to be brought in. "When SMB [...]
