[Seychelles News Agency] The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has begun removing policies and measures put in place in 2020 to assist businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor said on Thursday.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles and Mauritius have extended an existing bilateral fisheries agreement for 60 days that will see the increase in license fees and a new environmental and research fee, said a top government official on Tuesday.

[Seychelles News Agency] As long as Africa is denied access to the COVID-19 vaccines, the restrictions on businesses will continue to affect relief efforts, Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan said in his inaugural address at the AU summit for hea...

[Seychelles News Agency] Two Seychellois artists are displaying their artworks at the 9th Beijing International Art Biennale, currently taking place at the National Art Museum of China.

[Seychelles News Agency] The Seychelles President, Wavel Ramkalawan, met with around twenty members of the Seychellois community living in Ethiopia on the sidelines of the African Union summit for heads of state and government, State House said on Sa...

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles expects to have Italy back as one of its leading markets in visitor arrivals in the first half of 2022, with a threefold increase forecast, the tourism department said on Thursday.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' environmental lawyer Angelique Pouponneau has been named as one of the 100 most influential Africans in 2021 by the New African magazine.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' health authorities have refurbished a fully functioning 60-bed field hospital, gifted by the government of Qatar in September last year, to better suit the island nation's weather conditions.

[Seychelles News Agency] With reforestation and increasing biodiversity at the core of its objectives, the National Assembly of Seychelles adopted part of a wetland area on the outskirt of the island nation's capital, Victoria, on Wednesday.

[Seychelles News Agency] Jonathan, an endemic Seychelles land tortoise who currently lives on the island of St Helena in the Atlantic, has been named the "oldest tortoise ever" by Guinness World Records.

[Seychelles News Agency] Motorists breaking traffic laws in Seychelles will face heftier fines from February 1, a top official said on Tuesday.

[Seychelles News Agency] The Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) received a supply vessel from the head of a Spanish tuna fishing company on Saturday.

[Seychelles News Agency] A Seychellois couple facing charges of corruption and money laundering represented themselves before the Supreme Court on Friday after their lead counsel recused himself and their foreign lawyer left the country while awaitin...

[Seychelles News Agency] The Seychelles national football team is expected to start its qualification matches in the African Cup of Nations 2023 (AFCON) competition against Lesotho in March.

[Seychelles News Agency] Air Seychelles will pay off only $27.8 million out of the $76 million initial debt owed to bondholders as part of the national airline's rescue plan in an agreement between the company's administrators and its creditors.

[Seychelles News Agency] A total of 1,182 Seychellois living overseas have come forward to register with the diaspora unit of the foreign affairs department, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[Seychelles News Agency] 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.

[Seychelles News Agency] Global seafood producer Thai Union Group plans to install solar panels at Indian Ocean Tuna (IOT), its Seychelles-based tuna processing facility, to reduce its carbon footprint.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' first petrol tanker Seychelles Pride, purchased in 2002, was sold on January 12 without informing the government and is currently flying the Comoros flag.

[Seychelles News Agency] Eight Aldabra giant tortoises transported from the Seychelles' main island of Mahe have settled into new lives and are roaming freely on D'Arros Island, the Save Our Seas Foundation said.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' passport remains the most powerful on the African continent for a consecutive year while moving up one place in a global ranking recently published by Henley and Partners for the first quarter of 2022.

[Seychelles News Agency] The 2022 sports fishing season will get underway on Saturday 22 this month with the Heineken Slam, earlier than usual, the Chairman of the Seychelles Sports Fishing Club (SSFC), Tarak Patel, said last week.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' beauty queen Gabriella Gonthier won the Miss University Africa Tourism 2021 title at the Miss University Africa pageant in Abuja, Nigeria on December 18.

[Seychelles News Agency] Chennai's MIOT International Hospital on Friday opened a new state of the art eye care facility in Seychelles at a cost of $900,000, becoming the first Indian hospital to provide full-time services in the island state, an arc...

[WHO-AFRO] Victoria, Seychelles -- As part of its continued support to improve data management within the context of COVID-19 including the health system as a whole, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has handed over 76 tablets to the Ministry of He...