A documentary film on the Aldabra clean-up project called 'Island Under Siege' will be screened for free at Deepam Cinema in Victoria on Friday, November 28 at 6 p.m. The 24-minute documentary goes behind the scenes of the five-week expedition from February 22 to March 29 in which over 25 metric tonnes of plastic pollution [...]
Disgraced Maldives ex-president Abdulla Yameen was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering on Thursday after a corruption probe into the former strongman's rule of the luxury tourist destination. Yameen, who ran the Indian Ocean archipelago with an iron fist before his shock election loss in 2018, was accused of illegally transferring one [...]
Seychelles' government and representatives from the European Union met for the 7th EU-Seychelles Political Dialogue to discuss strengthening the partnership for a sustainable and peaceful future. The dialogue held at the Eden Bleu hotel on Thursday saw the two parties agreeing on continued collaboration in maritime security, fisheries, health and education and the strengthening of key [...]
Seychelles now has a direct link with Tel Aviv following the touchdown of the inaugural flight carried out by the island nation's airline on Thursday. Air Seychelles' non-stop flight HM021 landed at the Seychelles' international airport with 120 passengers -- the maximum capacity for the plane. The Minister of Civil Aviation, Didier Dogley, said, "Since [...]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives are heading for a comfortable win in next month's election, according to a detailed new poll, amid reports Thursday that the rival Labour party is refocusing its strategy. The YouGov survey published late Wednesday said if the contest were held now, the Conservatives would snatch 44 seats from the [...]
November serves as a reminder for most adults of the stress that the month ahead brings. Whilst many cringes at the thought of the madness that Christmas brings to Victoria, the town centre, SNA walks you down memory lane to eight historical events that all happened in November. November 1, 1756 Captain Nicholas Morphey [...]
Ten million voters in Madagascar were called out to vote Wednesday in local elections where the biggest prize is the capital Antananarivo, held by the opposition. Voting in the Indian Ocean island nation is the latest test for President Andry Rajoelina, who won presidential elections last December and whose coalition won parliamentary elections in June. [...]
The possibility that three Seychellois prisoners serving life sentences in Egypt could be transferred to the prison in Seychelles was raised with President Danny Faure, the newly accredited ambassador said on Tuesday. Khaled El Abyad presented his letter of accreditation as the ambassador of Egypt to Seychelles to Faure on Tuesday at State House. "We [...]
For the first time, China has more diplomatic missions around the world than the United States, according to a study published Wednesday that offered fresh evidence of Beijing's global ambitions. Australia's respected Lowy Institute reported that China's "rapid" rise up the rankings of diplomatic networks continued in 2019, boosted by the opening of diplomatic posts [...]
A Brazilian man was sentenced by the Seychelles Supreme Court on Monday to six years in prison for importing cocaine. The Brazilian snacks seller, Venicius Da Silva Reis, was arrested in possession of approximately 2 kg of cocaine by officers of the Anti-Narcotics Bureau (ANB) at the Seychelles International Airport on July 17. According to [...]
