Entrepreneurs from Reunion – a French department in the Indian Ocean - are expected to have better access to the Seychelles’ market after business leaders from the two island nations signed a new agreement. A 13-member delegation from Reunion participated in a bilateral business forum in Seychelles earlier this month. Commercial activities and business transactions were the [...]
Global finance ministers agreed Friday to double a key pool of money that the International Monetary Fund can use to aid distressed countries but again put off giving more votes to major emerging economies. The IMF has been working to restructure its voting shares to give more weight to growing economies like China, India and [...]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Friday seek to sell his Brexit deal to sceptical MPs, as he returns home fresh from an EU victory but risking defeat in parliament. Johnson pulled off a major coup in agreeing a new divorce deal with the European Union leader, paving the way for him to deliver [...]
An article published in The Guardian highlighted that Seychelles is ranked third in Africa for internet penetration. The island nation’s 70 percent penetration places it just after Kenya and Liberia, which top the list with 90 and 81 percent penetration respectively. The article in The Guardian’s Business News this month quoted statistics from the World [...]
A seawall is being rebuilt in the western district of Anse Boileau to tackle flooding during high tides and heavy rain in the area, an increasing occurrence being blamed on climate change. The project, which is being implemented in two phases, will prevent seawater from ending up on the road by restoring the existing, crumbling [...]
Turkey has agreed to suspend its Syria offensive for five days and will end the assault if Kurdish-led forces withdraw from a safe zone along the border, US Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish officials announced Thursday after high-stakes talks. The agreement for the 120-hour pause eased what had escalated into an unprecedented crisis between [...]
Seychelles is getting ready to welcome the second edition of the Seychelles Fashion Week which will take place between November 28 and December 1. Collections will be presented from a record 25 designers or group of designers coming from over 10 countries. SNA presents the second part of a series introducing the designers that will be showcasing their [...]
The leader of ‘Lalyans Seselwa,’ an opposition party in Seychelles, says he is fit and ready to resume his work in politics after undergoing surgery on October 7 in Sri Lanka. Pillay, who returned to the country on Wednesday morning, said he had to travel to Sri Lanka urgently for the specialised care. “I was admitted to Hemas Hospital [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, leaves the country on Thursday on a working visit to the United Kingdom, State House said. Faure has been invited to chair the first preparatory meeting for the first Indian Ocean Summit. The summit follows the Nekton Deep Ocean Expedition that took place in Seychelles earlier this year, marking the first [...]
To mark his third year in office as the president of Seychelles, Danny Faure is showcasing gifts received on behalf of the people of the island nation in an exhibition which opened on Wednesday. Called the ‘Gifts of State’, the exhibition at the National History Museum in Victoria is an initiative Faure started in 2017. The [...]
