United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged Addis Ababa and Mogadishu to open dialogue to settle their dispute over Ethiopia's maritime deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland. Tensions in the Horn of Africa have escalated since landlocked Ethiopia struck a deal with Somaliland on January 1 that gives it much sought-after access [...]
Devyn Sharpe, an 18-year-old Seychellois-British entrepreneur, has embarked on his second year in the boat rental business in Seychelles with a green economy mindset. Born and raised in England to a Seychellois mother and British father, Sharpe settled full-time in Seychelles in July 2023. Since the age of 10, Sharpe developed an interest in the [...]
Japan on Saturday became the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing, but said its "Moon Sniper" spacecraft was running out of power due to a solar battery problem. After a nail-biting 20-minute descent, space agency JAXA said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had touched down and communication had been established. But [...]
The government of war-torn Sudan has informed IGAD it is suspending its membership in the east Africa bloc, the foreign ministry loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Saturday. Khartoum had already announced on Tuesday that it was freezing relations with IGAD for inviting paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo -- at war with Burhan [...]
Members of United Seychelles (US), the main opposition political party, held a protest on Saturday near the Cascade District Administration office on the main Mahe Island to show their dissatisfaction with the way that the government is handling the aftermath of the CCCL explosion disaster. The incident occurred during the early hours of December 7, [...]
Phinehas Bynum, a Seychellois-American classically trained singer and multi-instrumentalist, has said that opera was not initially a career he thought he would pursue, but that his childhood experiences played a big role in the fact that he now sings opera. The 33-year-old who lives in Minneapolis in the United States. He was recently on a [...]
The outgoing governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles, Caroline Abel, presented Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan with a copy of the Central Bank’s strategic plan for 2024 - 2028 during a visit the President made to the institution on Friday. Ramkalawan visited all the different sections of the Central Bank, and he described the work [...]
Crew members of the Iranian dhow Abdullahi were formally charged by the Supreme Court of Seychelles for the importation of illicit drugs to Seychelles on Tuesday. The crew of the Abdullahi, all eight Iranian nationals, were intercepted by the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) northeast of Denis Island, which lies 60 kilometres north of the main [...]
A not-for-profit organisation focused on combatting land degradation and deforestation on Seychelles' Praslin Island has ventured into agroforestry. Terrestrial Restoration Action Society Seychelles (TRASS) recently opened a second nursery with a capacity of twelve thousand local and rare fruits. Marc Jean-Baptiste, a member of TRASS, told SNA that the use of local fruits in the organisation's restoration [...]
Mexico and Chile on Thursday joined calls for an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the Israel-Hamas war that has left thousands of people dead. The referral "is due to the growing concern over the latest escalation of violence, particularly against civilian targets, and the alleged continued commission of crimes under the court's [...]
