The Seychelles’ Tourism Department has launched the second edition of a visitors guide filled with safety tips and information about maritime leisure activities in the island nation. Launched on Monday at the tourism head office, the ‘Beach and Sea Safety Guide’ provides tips about beach and sea safety, information about marine flora and fauna as well as [...]
Pope Francis on Friday led the traditional Easter week "Way of the Cross" procession in Rome, which was this year took the theme of modern-day slavery and human trafficking, including the prostitutes who ply their trade on Italy's streets. The ceremony, taking place on Good Friday in the Christian calendar which marks the day Christ [...]
Hundreds of Christians all over Mahe, the main island, converged in the capital Victoria on Good Friday to commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ at Calvary. Believers walked while praying and chanting in the way of the cross procession which started at 9 a.m. at the Stad Popiler. This year’s Way of the Cross procession went up [...]
Indonesia's Joko Widodo said Thursday his reelection as head of the world's third-biggest democracy was all but assured, calling for calm as his firebrand ex-general rival insisted he had in fact won the nation's top job. Widodo, 57, said he had received phone calls from world leaders to congratulate him on his country's biggest-ever election, [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, will proceed on overseas leave to the United Arab Emirates on Friday, State House said on Thursday. Faure will return on Monday, April 22. State House said that since the Vice-President, Vincent Meriton, will be on an overseas mission during this period, the Designated Minister, Macsuzy Mondon, will be responsible for the [...]
Measles cases rose 300 percent worldwide through the first three months of 2019 compared to the same period last year, the UN said Monday, as concern grows over the impact of anti-vaccination stigma. Measles, which is highly contagious, can be entirely prevented through a two-dose vaccine, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has in recent [...]
As Seychelles - a Christian country - observes the holy week leading to Easter Sunday, SNA presents a buzz of Christian religious leaders who have been immortalised on stamps published by the island nation’s post office. The leaders have all visited Seychelles – a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean – since [...]
Seychelles has recorded an increase in cinnamon production in 2018 and is expecting a prosperous production for exporters this year. According to the figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) comparing the third quarter of 2017 to that of 2018, the production of cinnamon increased from 0.6 tonnes to 3.4 tonnes. NBS attributes the [...]
A giant lion with enormous fangs that roamed the Kenyan savannah more than 20 million years ago was one of the largest ever meat-eating mammals, researchers said Thursday. A team unearthed the lower jaw, teeth and other bones of a new species, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika -- Swahili for "big African lion". They calculated it would have [...]
France on Wednesday announced it would invite architects from around the world to submit designs for replacing the spire of Notre-Dame cathedral after a devastating blaze, as the government braced for a mammoth restoration challenge. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the contest would decide whether the monument should have a new spire at all and [...]
