The World Health Organization warned Friday that Christmas celebrations could turn to tears if people fail to keep up their guard against Covid-19 during the festive season. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of deaths in the coronavirus pandemic was surging and urged people to think very carefully about their holiday season plans. [...]
A new e-booklet which highlights the works and experience of concerned citizens on bullying through poems and short stories was launched during the weekend. Entitled 'Express Yourself,' the e-booklet was initiated by Stand Up Step Up Seychelles, a not-for-profit organisation in partnership with Seychelles Rising Lions Club as part of their campaign to raise awareness on bullying. [...]
Judge Mathilda Twomey is the first Seychellois to be awarded a Human Rights Prize from the French and German governments. The French Ambassador to Seychelles, Dominique Mas, announced the award for Twomey at a reception on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day on Thursday. Judge Twomey was one of 15 people in the [...]
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, will undertake a five-day working visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting this weekend, State House said on Friday. Ramkalawan, who will leave the country on Saturday, will be accompanied by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Sylvestre Radegonde, Ambassador Jean Claude Adrienne, the head of the [...]
Ethiopia's government on Thursday said it had sent truckloads of wheat to Tigray, as a row over access continued to keep nearly all foreign aid agencies out of the northern region. A convoy of 30 trucks arrived in the regional capital Mekele on Thursday, according to the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate, and "preparations are underway [...]
Alain St Ange, the president of the One Seychelles political party, has stepped down from the leadership post of the party he led in his return to Seychellois politics. In the island nation's October presidential vote, St Ange who is 66 years old, came in third with 1,021 votes -- or 1.6 percent. SNA talked [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday hailed as "historic" a normalisation agreement with Morocco and anticipated direct flights between the two countries soon. In a televised address, he thanked Moroccan King Mohammed VI "for taking this historic decision to bring an historic peace between us". Netanyahu said the people of Israel and Morocco have [...]
The Indian Ocean Tuna (IOT) company in Seychelles has expanded its storage capacity to ensure stock will last until February 2021 in view of the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said on Thursday. Jean-Francois Ferrari, the Minister for Fisheries, told the press after his familiarisation visit at IOT canning factory that the [...]
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday published a back-up plan to protect road and air travel and fishing rights if Britain leaves the union without a trade deal. The UK left the European Union on January 31 and at the end of this month will leave the bloc's single market and customs union, [...]
Foreigners who own property in Seychelles now have until the end of March 2021 to pay the new Immoveable Property Tax Act. The extended deadline for the Immoveable Property Tax (Interim Measures) Bill was approved on Wednesday by the National Assembly. The Bill was presented by Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Trade Naadir Hassan, [...]
