Australia announced a Aus$500 million ($340 million) climate change package for Pacific countries Tuesday but received a lukewarm response from low-lying island nations demanding urgent action from their powerful neighbour to curb its carbon emissions. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the funding, drawn from Australia's existing international aid budget, would help Pacific island nations invest [...]
The death toll from Typhoon Lekima rose to 49 on Tuesday and 21 were still missing after the monster storm wreaked havoc on China's eastern coast, causing huge damage with strong gales and torrential rain. Lekima hit the three Chinese provinces of Zhejiang, Shandong and Anhui over the weekend and forced more than a million [...]
A new bank that focuses on digital banking services opened in Seychelles on Monday. Located at Allied Plaza Building on Francis Rachel Street in the capital of Victoria, the State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) will provide a broad range of products and services new to Seychelles. “We are coming up with new services such as E-Wallet [...]
Comoros President Azali Assoumani has pardoned four opposition figures jailed for life for an attempted coup in the Indian Ocean islands. In a decree issued Saturday, writer Said Ahmed Said Tourqui, lawyer Bahassane Ahmed Said, Mohamed Ali Abdallah and El-Had Ibrahim Halifa were "pardoned from all of their remaining sentences". The four were jailed for [...]
A new government body will be set up to manage all commercial activities relating to fisheries in Seychelles as part of a three-year comprehensive plan launched by the Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture last weekend. “The aim of the plan is to continue developing and sustaining the fisheries sector, the second pillar of our economy. [...]
Tanzania on Sunday laid to rest most of the 71 people who died while trying to collect leaking petrol from an overturned fuel tanker that exploded. The deadly blast, which took place Saturday near the town of Morogoro, west of the economic capital Dar es Salaam, is the latest in a series of similar disasters [...]
Grace Barbe, a Seychellois artist living in Australia, has released her much-awaited third album FANM:WOMAN. The global launch happened July 5 through Afrotropik Records in Fremantle, Western Australia where the artist is based. Barbe told SNA through email that she was relieved and happy to finally release the album which has been six years in the making. “In 2018 we were [...]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a "new weapon" test, state media reported Sunday, the latest in a series of launches that US President Donald Trump has played down as Washington seeks to restart nuclear talks with Pyongyang. The report carried by the Korean Central News Agency followed Trump's comments that Kim had expressed [...]
The government of Seychelles has bought back ten plots of land purchased by the ruling party, United Seychelles, formerly Parli Lepep. The Minister for Habitat, Lands, Infrastructure and Land Transport Pamela Charlette said Friday that the plots were acquired following negotiations with the party. “Following President Faure’s announcement in his last live Presidential press conference, we [...]
A new collaboration between Steen Hansen and Damien Doudee highlights the crucial role and richness of the island nation’s only biodiversity centre. The book, illustrated with beautiful photos, focuses on the 115 plants found at the centre, amongst which are 29 endemic and 16 indigenous to Seychelles. The centre located in the western district of [...]
