The sicklefin lemon shark and the blacktip reef shark peacefully coexist in the shallow lagoon of the Seychelles' remote St Joseph Atoll by giving each other space, a new study found. In a communique last week, the Save Our Seas Foundation said that although both species use the whole atoll overall, small differences in where [...]
Mauritius deployed its coastguard and armed forces on Monday after a Chinese-flagged trawler containing 130 tonnes of oil ran aground off the Indian Ocean archipelago nation.It is the second shipwreck in less than a year off Mauritius, after a tanker struck a reef in July and leaked 1,000 tonnes of fuel in the country's worst [...]
Seychelles joined 30 other member countries of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) in a special weeklong session that began Monday to discuss the sustainability of fishing yellowfin tuna and to address deficiencies in the harvest control rule for skipjack tuna. Yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean is currently the most overfished tuna stock in [...]
Roger Mancienne was sworn in as speaker of the new National Assembly in October last year, becoming the fourth speaker of the country's parliament since the return of multi-party democracy in 1993. Mancienne who is 73 years old, is also the leader of the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) political party which won a landslide victory [...]
Mahamadou Issoufou, who is stepping down as president of coup-prone Niger after two terms in office, on Monday won Africa's top prize for leadership. He was awarded the 2020 Ibrahim Prize for facing "seemingly insurmountable challenges," ranging from deep poverty to jihadism and desertification. Despite these enduring problems, "Issoufou has led his people on a [...]
As Seychelles joins the rest of the world to celebrate International Women's Day, SNA spoke with a member of an all-women diver team from the Seychelles Island Foundation currently conducting this year's monitoring in the Aldabra surrounding waters. A marine researcher from SIF and a member of the team, Anna Koester, told SNA that "it [...]
Air Seychelles will return to the skies with regularly scheduled passenger flights after a nearly three-month absence, opening a weekly flight from Seychelles to Dubai World Central Airport between 26 March and 29 May, the airline announced on Monday. The airline, along with much of the tourism industry in Seychelles, has struggled mightily during the [...]
Detained Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko will appear in court Monday, with his supporters urged to "massively descend onto the streets" for a new round of protests against his arrest. Five people, including a schoolboy, have been killed in days of clashes sparked by the arrest, the worst violence in years in a country usually [...]
International Women's Day is commemorated on March 8 all over the world as a celebration of women and their achievements. Seychelles – 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean -- is known as a matriarchal society with independent women assuming different posts, even those traditionally associated with men. Angela Servina has broken the glass ceiling as the first woman [...]
Pope Francis concluded on Monday the first-ever papal trip to Iraq, which went off without a hitch despite security worries and a second wave of coronavirus cases in the country. The 84-year-old pontiff covered more than 1,400 kilometres (900 miles) inside the country, bringing encouragement to its diminished Christian community and extending a hand to [...]
