In order to become a Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) compliant country, Seychelles has to submit its first report -- a kind of fisheries travel guide for the island nation -- which is expected to come out later during the year. In line with this, the Department of Blue Economy, together with the FiTI International Secretariat, [...]
The Maldives has tightened entry requirements for tourists after a spike in coronavirus infections at more than a dozen resorts, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. The Indian Ocean archipelago re-opened its luxury resort islets in mid-July after a months-long lockdown, and did not require visitors to be tested or carry virus-free certificates when entering the [...]
The Seychelles National Parks Authority (SNPA) introduced the first paying nature trail on Mahe under its management after re-opening the Copolia trail after renovation works. Visiting the Copolia trail will come with an entry fee of SRC100 ($6) for non-residents over 12 years old after the authority searched for ways to increase income. In 2019, [...]
Rwandan investigators announced Monday they had arrested Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroic actions during the 1994 genocide were depicted in the Oscar-nominated movie "Hotel Rwanda", accusing the high-profile government critic of terrorism. The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) said Rusesabagina, who lives in Belgium, had been detained "through international cooperation" and was being held at a police [...]
Health professionals in Seychelles find the island nation's COVID-19 quarantine and isolation centres challenging, since they were not designed for their current purpose, but the doctor in charge noted and celebrated the fact that no health workers caring for COVID patients have been infected. Dr. Josapha Joanneau told a press conference on Tuesday that health [...]
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said he would send special envoys to Zimbabwe within "days" in a second attempt to resolve an ongoing crisis in the country's northern neighbour. Three veteran South African politicians travelled to Zimbabwe in early August after authorities banned anti-government demonstrations and arrested several protesters. The delegation did not [...]
The Seychelles Port Authority (SPA) is working on a new ‘premium entry fee’ that will apply to superyachts calling to Port Victoria. Vincent Didon, the director for business development at SPA, told SNA that the new charges aim to make sure that services being rendered are at par with the yacht owners’ expectations. “The Premium Entry Fee shall [...]
Sudanese leaders and rebel commanders agreed Monday on a "historic" peace deal, a crucial step towards ending 17 years of conflict in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Leaders of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an umbrella organisation of rebel groups from the western region of Darfur and the southern states of South [...]
Seychelles’ Ministry for Environment, Energy and Climate Change has launched a volunteer programme where adolescents assist with its turtle monitoring activities. The young volunteers will be trained and will assist the Biodiversity Conservation Section of the ministry as there is a lack of human resource to effectively monitor beaches, especially those used by nesting [...]
A US-Israeli delegation led by White House advisor Jared Kushner arrived Monday in Abu Dhabi, on the historic first commercial flight from Tel Aviv to mark the normalisation of ties between the Jewish state and the UAE. The word "peace" was written in Arabic, English and Hebrew on the cockpit of the El Al flight [...]
