March is dedicated to women: celebrating their achievements, highlighting their plight, sharing their success stories to inspire other women, and creating awareness on issues affecting women such as health, wellness, wellbeing, empowerment, and economic justice. For this year's International Women's Day on March 6, SNA brings you the success story of Sarah Romain (née Afif). She [...]
Sweden on Thursday became the 32nd member of NATO in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, turning the page on two centuries of non-alignment and capping two years of tortuous diplomacy. Days after Hungary followed key holdout Turkey and became the last NATO member to sign off, Sweden ceremonially handed over accession documents to [...]
Senegal on Thursday looked set to elect its new president on March 24 and end weeks of crisis triggered by the delay to the poll, after the top constitutional body agreed to the new date suggested by the president. Confusion had reigned late on Wednesday after President Macky Sall set March 24 as the date [...]
Members of the Seychelles National Assembly learned more about the benefits and dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies through a seminar in which the protection of human rights was at the forefront. With AI being an ever increasing part of modern technologies, making even the most difficult tasks for humans, much easier, [...]
A novel study by a Seychellois researcher and her colleagues has determined that the endemic coco de mer plants prefer to undergo reproduction with a mate to which it is closely related, also referred to as inbreeding. The coco de mer is the world's largest nut and is endemic to Seychelles, a group of 115 [...]
Creole values, ancestral knowledge and the Creole identity in a globalised world and giving it its rightful value, are part of the discussion of a four-day meeting taking place in Seychelles. The second edition of the "Rencontres Creoles des Seychelles" [Seychelles' Creole Meetings] started on Tuesday and will end on Friday with the participation of creators, decision-makers, [...]
Joe Biden and Donald Trump cruised to comfortable victories on Super Tuesday, setting up an almost certain rerun of the 2020 election, but their primary successes cloak problems that could have a significant impact on the White House race. Worries over Biden's age and anger over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war have muted celebrations [...]
The UN Security Council expressed its concern over the deteriorating situation in violence-gripped Haiti on Wednesday, as Washington ramped up pressure on absent Prime Minister Ariel Henry to secure a political settlement. Armed gangs who control swaths of the country launched a coordinated effort to oust Henry last week, attacking the airport, prisons and police [...]
Participants in the 14th edition of the Cutlass Express, a multinational military exercise taking place in Seychelles and two other countries, demonstrated the skills they acquired since the training began last week. The public relations officer for the Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF), Lieutenant Colonel Achille Mondon, told reporters, "Today we had what we call a VIP [...]
Seychelles intends to implement more technology into the agricultural sector and has joined two other African countries, South Africa and Zambia, to take part in a pilot project. A collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the project aims to promote technology assessment (TA) in the energy and agricultural sectors in Africa. [...]
