The United States Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a calibrated rebuke of China's human rights record that stops short of preventing US athletes from competing. The decision comes after Washington spent months wrangling with what position to take on the Games, hosted in February next year by a country [...]
Twenty-one people, including two Frenchmen, went on trial in Madagascar on Monday accused of a plot to stage a coup and assassinate President Andry Rajoelina. The defendants face charges ranging from criminal association to compromising state security and planning to kill the head of state. The alleged operation has been called the "Apollo 21" plot. [...]
Works on a project to expand the sewage system in Seychelles will be tendered out to different contractors so that they can be done simultaneously, said an official of the Public Utilities Corporation (PUC). Michel Bristol, the director of project management at PUC, told SNA recently that with several delays in the Neptune project which started in [...]
The total number of visitors at the Seychelles Pavilion in the Dubai Expo 2020 has surpassed 100,000. The Seychelles’ Expo committee said that by last Thursday, which coincided with the UAE National Day, 103,473 had visited the Seychelles Pavilion. The Expo was free for the public during the National Day weekend and the Seychelles Pavilion [...]
Adama Barrow comfortably won a second term in The Gambia's presidential election, with thousands of his supporters celebrating in the streets of Banjul, although his opponents disputed the results announced late Sunday. Barrow, whose assumption of the presidency five years ago ended more than 20 years of dictatorship, garnered more than 53 percent of the [...]
Rescuers in Indonesia raced to find survivors in villages blanketed by molten ash Sunday after the eruption of Mount Semeru killed at least 13 people and left dozens injured, officials said. The eruption of the biggest mountain on the island of Java caught locals by surprise on Saturday, sending thousands fleeing and forcing hundreds of [...]
A 70-year-old Seychellois, Paul D’Offay, is taking part in a canoeing challenge called “Age and Courage for Purpose” to raise funds to buy beds for terminally ill patients. D’Offay has completed the first of three crossings he has set himself as targets to raise funds for the charitable cause. The “Age and Courage for Purpose” [...]
Pope Francis on Saturday began a landmark trip to Greece with the first visit to Athens by a pontiff in two decades, aiming to improve relations with the Orthodox Church of Greece and highlight the plight of refugees. Flying in after a two-day trip to Cyprus, the pope landed shortly after 0900 GMT and was [...]
The case of the missing $50 million before the Seychelles Supreme court on Friday was split in two: money laundering and terrorism. Under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2004, the first three suspects who were arrested in the case, a couple and a senior officer in the Seychelles People's Defence Forces, will remain in police [...]
Absa Bank Seychelles has launched the first touch-free ATM service in Seychelles where customers will be able to use their smartphones to withdraw money. The service was launched on Thursday and a top official said that this will go a long way towards reducing human contact with ATM machines, a safer option for clients amid [...]
