A Seychelles environmental NGO is undertaking an air quality monitoring project to gain a full picture of how good the island nation's air quality is and determine where action should be taken. Sustainability for Seychelles (S4S), started the project two months ago adding the island nation to the list of 117 countries in the world monitoring their air quality. [...]
Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels fired two missiles late Tuesday toward merchant ships travelling in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the US military said following a report by the British maritime security agency UKMTO. United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations had initially reported explosions near a cargo ship sailing between the coasts of [...]
Seychelles' authorities have been advised by a risk specialist from Reunion Island to be on the lookout during the coming month as the weather conditions may bring more landslides. The statement was made by Claire Rault, a natural risk engineer geomorphologist who did a study in the north of Mahe, after heavy rainfalls caused severe landslides in December. "We are [...]
The year 2023 brought relief for Seychelles from the challenges of COVID-19 as the island nation's economy rebounded. However, the Israel-Hamas war created new challenges which were aggravated by two disasters that hit Seychelles in December. As the world gets ready for 2024, SNA looks back at its five most-read articles of 2023. The entire [...]
Japanese rescuers battled against the clock and powerful aftershocks Tuesday to find survivors of a major earthquake that struck on New Year's Day, reportedly killing more than 20 people and leaving a trail of destruction. The 7.5-magnitude quake, which hit Ishikawa prefecture on the main island of Honshu, triggered tsunami waves more than a metre [...]
Fireworks illuminated skies over Paris, Rio and Sydney to celebrate the entry to 2024, while in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine, rockets and strikes marked the year's earliest hours. Much of the world's population -- now more than eight billion -- is hoping to shake off high living costs and global tumult in 2024, which will [...]
Seychelles welcomed the new year 2024 with a street party in the car park of Stad Popiler in the centre of the capital of Victoria that included live performances from well known musical groups and artists. The festivities started at 6 p.m. on December 31 with the countdown to welcome the New Year and went on until 2 a.m [...]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan presented his good wishes for the New Year 2024 to the people of Seychelles in a televised address on the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) TV on Sunday evening. “Yes, we all love our country and each day when we open our eyes, and at night before we rest, we look up [...]
London's Big Ben on Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of its "bongs" to ring in the New Year being broadcast live across the world. Ever since New Year's Eve 1923 when BBC engineer A.G. Dryland clambered onto a roof opposite the British parliament to record the strikes, live transmission has become an annual tradition. The [...]
Visitor arrivals to Seychelles from January 1 to December 24, 2023, surpassed the figures for the same period in 2022 by 6 percent according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to the figures released by the NBS on December 28, 342,303 visitors came to Seychelles compared to 324,386 for [...]
