Category: News
Seychelles’ Christian leaders urge compassion, reconciliation on a stay-at-home Easter Sunday
For the second year in a row, Christians in Seychelles will celebrate Easter Sunday at home and follow mass on television due to restrictions still in [...]
Taiwan mourns after deadliest train disaster in decades
Salvage teams began removing mangled train carriages on Saturday after Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people, as flags fle [...]
Home garden competition open for Seychelles’ green thumbs, both small and large
No balcony is too small and no yard is too large. There is space enough for every home in Seychelles to participate in a newly launched garden competi [...]
Russian airline Aeroflot lands in Seychelles – with tourists! – after 17-year hiatus
After a 17-year hiatus, the Russian airline Aeroflot landed in Seychelles on Friday carrying 387 passengers and a consignment of COVID-19 vaccines, Sp [...]
Madagascar joins Covax after vaccine u-turn
Madagascar's health minister on Thursday announced the country had joined the COVAX vaccine-sharing programme, following through with a recent pledge [...]
Promising signs as 3,800 tourists arrive in Seychelles first week after re-opening
A week after Seychelles opened its borders to most countries, 3,800 visitors have arrived in the island nation, a figure that a top Seychelles Tourism [...]
Europe vaccine rollout ‘unacceptably slow’, case surge ‘worrying’: WHO
The World Health Organization on Thursday slammed Europe's "unacceptably slow" vaccine rollout and said the region's surge in coronavirus infections w [...]
Seychelles’ fastest female marathon runner laid to rest at age 44
Seychelles lost one of its top female athletes after the passing of long-distance record-holding runner Simone Dick last Friday at the age of 44.
Dick [...]
Over 8,000 Mozambique attack survivors find refuge: UN
More than 8,100 people have reached safety outside the northern Mozambican town of Palma a week after it was besieged by jihadists, the UN said Wednes [...]
Seychelles’ Central Bank launches first youth financial education programme
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has welcomed its first cohort of financial ambassadors after launching its first-ever Youth 4 Youth – a Financial [...]