International Criminal Court judges on Monday convicted a Congolese rebel chief nicknamed "Terminator" of war crimes including horrific massacres of civilians, sexual enslavement and recruitment of child soldiers. Former warlord Bosco Ntaganda becomes the first person to be convicted of sexual slavery by the tribunal in The Hague, in a badly-needed boost for prosecutors after [...]
Maldives is seeking the support of Seychelles to host the next Indian Ocean Island Games in 2023, said a Maldivian special envoy on Monday. “Maldives has been a country which has participated in all the games. We are very eager to return the hospitality that has been accorded to us by the Indian Ocean islands,” Abdullah Shahid told [...]
A success story in terms of conservation, restoration, and protection of the environment, the Curieuse National Marine Park is also seen as a major source of income for local entrepreneurs in Seychelles. Curieuse was amongst five other sites which were declared national and marine parks In June 1979. The island is situated on the north [...]
Africa Cup of Nations debutants Madagascar kept their remarkable run going on Sunday with a penalty shootout victory over the Democratic Republic of Congo after a 2-2 draw to secure a place in the quarter-finals. Ibrahim Amada's wonder strike put Madagascar ahead just nine minutes in at Alexandria Stadium but DR Congo responded swiftly as [...]
The United States retained the women's World Cup on Sunday as a Megan Rapinoe penalty and a superb Rose Lavelle strike gave the holders a 2-0 victory over a battling Netherlands side in Lyon. Having been kept at bay by the brilliant Dutch goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal throughout the first half, the USA finally went [...]
Seychellois Pierre Laporte, a former Minister of Finance, has been appointed as the World Bank’s new Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Laporte told SNA on Thursday that he's excited with the opportunity. He has been serving as country director at the World Bank for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo since July 2015. “My new [...]
African leaders will meet Sunday in Niger for the African Union (AU) summit, to sign a landmark free trade agreement, and to discuss looming security and migration crises on the continent. In a "historic" moment for the 55-member bloc, according to its chairman Moussa Faki, heads of state will officially launch the African Continental Free [...]
Seychelles has temporarily suspended all pork imports from Belgium following an outbreak of the African swine fever in the European country. The island nation’s National Biosecurity Agency says the ban, effective since July 2, is a precautionary measure until the situation is cleared. The chief executive of the Agency, Marc Naiken, told reporters on Friday [...]
Seychelles will join other island nations in the region in less than two weeks to contest the 10th edition of the Indian Ocean Island Games in Mauritius. Alain Alcindor, the secretary-general of the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association, told SNA that the island nation’s delegation will comprise of 351 members. “The Seychelles’ delegation will be [...]
Iran demanded Friday that Britain immediately release an oil tanker it has detained in Gibraltar, accusing it of acting at the bidding of the United States. A senior foreign ministry official "described the UK move as unacceptable" in a meeting with British ambassador Rob Macaire, who had been summoned to hear a formal protest, the [...]
