The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has strongly condemned and denounced the acts of vandalism that took place in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital Victoria on Thursday evening. All the statues and prayer stations of the cross in the cathedral have been destroyed and a fire was set to [...]
The fifth tournament of the Seychelles Sports Fishing Club season, the Southeast Monsoon Sailfish Tournament, will take place on Saturday, June 11. Boats for the tournament will be allowed to depart from the Marine Charter, Eden Island Marina and Providence and to fish at two fishing grids – northeast and southeast of Mahe. Those fishing outside [...]
The risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic nations is real, the WHO warned Wednesday, with more than a thousand cases now confirmed in such countries. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was not recommending mass vaccination against the virus, and added that no deaths had been reported so [...]
Renovation work on the Seychelles National Library building is expected to be completed by May 2023, said a top official of Green Island Construction Company (GICC) contracted for the project. Angelique Antat, the general manager of GICC – a subsidiary of the state-owned Island Development Company (IDC) – made the announcement on Wednesday during a [...]
As Seychelles joined the rest of the world to celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8, SNA looks at five ways that Seychelles and local conservation organisations are protecting the island nation's territorial waters and its species. Seychelles Marine Spatial Plan The government-led initiative with the support of the Nature Conservancy Trust is working [...]
Perpetrators of crimes who are seeking amnesty before Seychelles' Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission (TRNUC) for human rights violations that resulted from the coup d'état have linked two of former presidents to the crimes. In three open amnesty hearings on June 1 and June 2, five perpetrators of murder crimes came forward to outline their roles [...]
UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the consequences for the world of Russia's invasion of Ukraine are worsening, with 1.6 billion people likely to be affect. "The war's impact on food security, energy and finance is systemic, severe, and speeding up," the Secretary-General said, presenting the UN's second report into the repercussions of the [...]
A group of children in Seychelles made a pledge to protect the ocean in one of several activities organised to mark World Oceans Day on June 8. The aim of the activities is to raise awareness among children on the need to protect the ocean and the importance of the concept of the Blue Economy. [...]
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the chiefs of world and European football, went on trial in Switzerland on Wednesday over a suspected fraudulent payment. Former FIFA president Blatter, 86, and Platini, 66, appeared in the Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona, following an investigation that began in 2015 and lasted six [...]
Belgium's King Philippe landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, in a historic visit to the central African country his ancestor once ruled brutally as his personal fief. The monarch will undertake a six-day trip billed as a chance for reconciliation after atrocities committed under Belgian colonial rule. The visit comes two years [...]
