The Seychelles' men’s football side will face Nigeria on Friday in its last qualification match of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2019. As Seychelles is no longer a contender for the finals, the team is in full preparation for the Indian Ocean Islands Games coming up in July in Mauritius. Before proceeding to Nigeria for their [...]
Sri Lanka announced Tuesday that an overseas joint venture had committed $3.85 billion to a new oil refinery -- the single largest foreign investment in the country's history. The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka said construction would begin this weekend on the refinery and storage facility jointly financed by Oman's Ministry of Oil and [...]
Every year on March 20 the Seychelles joins other French-speaking countries to commemorate ‘La Francophonie,’ a celebration of the French language and for this island nation a reminder of its historical links to France. In this week’s Buzz SNA presents six historical "liens" between France and the 115 islands archipelago in the western Indian Ocean. 1. [...]
Secondary students on an exchange programme from Reunion are learning more about a fellow ‘Vanilla Island’ and speaking French every day for a week. Coinciding with ‘La Fête de la Francophonie’, 25 students from Collège Jean Albany of La Possession, Reunion, are currently in Seychelles for the first leg of the exchange with the English River Secondary [...]
Aid workers raced on Wednesday to help survivors and meet spiralling humanitarian needs in three southern African countries battered by the region's worst storm in years. Five days after tropical cyclone Idai cut a swathe through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the confirmed death toll stood at more than 300 and hundreds of thousands of lives [...]
All private commercial institutions and entities will be obliged as of April 1 to have a contract for waste collection with an approved contractor, said a top official. The chief executive of the Land Waste Management Agency, Flavien Joubert, told SNA that the agency has met with and registered companies that are capable of providing waste collection services. [...]
The death toll from flash floods and landslides that tore through Indonesia's Papua region has topped 100 with dozens more still missing, the disaster agency said Wednesday. Nearly 10,000 people have moved to shelters while at least 104 victims are confirmed to have died and 79 are unaccounted for in the aftermath of the disaster, [...]
Seychelles’ macroeconomic performance in 2018 continued to be robust, said a top official from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The statement was made by Amadou Sy, the IMF deputy chief, on Monday after the completion of the third review under the Policy Coordination Instrument for Seychelles. Sy said that the good macroeconomic performance of Seychelles, an archipelago in the [...]
British Prime Minister Theresa May will write to EU President Donald Tusk with a plan for delaying Brexit beyond March 29, her spokesman said, admitting the parliamentary deadlock had reached crisis levels. The letter will be sent before May heads to a Brussels summit on Thursday, where she has already promised to seek what could [...]
An increase in the death rate among infants in Seychelles is highly linked to congenital anomalies, said the health minister on Tuesday. Responding to a question from National Assembly member Jean Francois Ferrari, Minister Jean-Paul Adam said that among 817 deaths registered at the Seychelles Hospital in 2018, 31 were the deaths of babies. “When looking at the [...]
