Seven lower-profile candidates registered on Monday to challenge Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih at next month's elections. The independent Elections Commission said a total of eight candidates, including 61-year-old Solih, have filed nominations for the September 9 poll. The Indian Ocean nation, better known for its luxury tourism, embraced multi-party democracy in 2008 after having [...]
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and fellow South American leaders face pressure to set out bold solutions to save the damaged Amazon as they open a summit Tuesday on the world's biggest rainforest. Brazilian officials have vowed to seek an ambitious roadmap to stop deforestation at the two-day meeting of the Amazon Cooperation [...]
Niger's military rulers were on Monday in defiance of an ultimatum to restore the elected government as the threat of possible military intervention was still on the table. No foreign forces were visible on the streets of the capital Niamey after the deadline came and went on Sunday, but the ECOWAS regional bloc has not [...]
As of June 2023, the annual year-on-year inflation rate of Seychelles has gone down to -1.3 percent, compared to 2.05 percent in the same month of 2022. The figure, which was published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) as part of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recently, shows that the core inflation index fell by [...]
Seychellois boxer Keddy Agnes won a silver medal at the 2023 African Elite Men and Women Boxing Championship held in Yaounde, Cameroon, from July 25 to August 6. Agnes was awarded second place after he was forced to abandon the contest in the elite final of the +92kg category on Saturday due to an injury. [...]
A high-level delegation from Absa Group visited Seychelles and met with Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan last week, as well as executives of Absa Bank Seychelles, which was previously part of the Barclays Bank group, one of the oldest banks to operate in the island nation. SNA met with Absa Group CEO Arrie Rautenbach and the managing director [...]
Moscow escalated its attacks in Ukraine on Saturday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing a deadly strike on a blood transfusion centre as a "war crime". A separate strike struck a key factory, both attacks coming just hours after Kyiv hit a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait. The attacks were the latest since Moscow exited [...]
Young international candidates and Seychellois youth with an interest in conservation are being asked to join Nature Seychelles' programme on Cousin Island Special Reserve for the hawksbill season, which begins in October. The chief executive of the non-profit organisation, Nirmal Shah, told SNA that "we are looking for people with the mental and emotional ability to apply [...]
West Africa's regional bloc said Friday its military chiefs have agreed a plan for a possible intervention in Niger, after the junta failed to restore civilian rule there following last week's coup. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday gave the junta that toppled elected president Mohamed Bazoum in a July 26 [...]
Logos Hope, the world's biggest floating library, is expected to berth in Seychelles' Port Victoria on August 10 and will open for the public from August 11 until August 16. Logos Hope returns to the islands nearly eight years after its visit in November 2015, at the beginning of its African tour. During this time [...]
