Tropical cyclone Idai battered Mozambican coastal city Beira Friday, leaving half a million people virtually cut off after power lines crashed, airport shut and roads were swamped by flooding that killed 66 people nationwide. "There is no communication with Beira. Houses and trees were destroyed and pylons downed," an official at the National Institute of [...]
A Sri Lankan national was charged for illegal fishing in the Seychelles’ waters by the Supreme Court on Thursday. Koswatta Thamel -- who was in charge of the vessel -- appeared in court with five other crew members of the Sri Lankan-flagged boat ‘Nuwan Putha 14, IMULAN 0831 KLT’. The five crew members were released. [...]
Israel said Friday its aircraft hit around 100 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, including toward its economic capital Tel Aviv. "Fighter planes, attack helicopters and (other) IDF aircraft attacked overnight about 100 terror targets of the Hamas terror organisation in the Gaza Strip," Israel's [...]
President Danny Faure of Seychelles gave his first live press of the year at State House on Thursday. SNA presents an overview of the issues raised. Alleged misuse of state funds within the Seychelles' Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) “My principle is one based on transparency, accountability and on good governance, but for us to be [...]
Mozambique has cancelled flights to several domestic destinations as a tropical cyclone, potentially the strongest to hit the country in nearly two decades, approached threatening to bring chaos to southern Africa. The wave of cancellations came as the UN warned that "tropical cyclone Idai has regained intensity and is expected to make landfall near Beira [...]
Ethiopian Airlines, whose jet crashed on Sunday after takeoff from Addis Ababa, has grown into Africa's largest airline as it has used its modern fleet to serve destinations across the continent. Founded in 1945, it has in recent years outgrown its continental rivals South African Airways and Kenya Airways, both of whom are losing money [...]
On February 21, the world celebrated the International Mother Language Day. In Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the Western Indian Ocean, Creole is the native language. Mainly derived from the French language, the Seychellois Creole language resulted from the descendants of settlers from Europe, traders from Asia and former slaves from Africa. With [...]
Seychellois who had land taken away by the government have until December to submit claims for compensation to the Land Compensation Tribunal, said the chairperson. Joseph Athanasius told SNA that the length of time given is for the public to have ample time to submit their claim as the tribunal. Any person who wants to [...]
Facebook grappled with challenges on two fronts Wednesday, an hours-long outage and intensified scrutiny from investigators reportedly probing data deals struck by the world's largest social network. As the outage continued, gripes flooded rival Twitter as well as a comments section on downdetector.com, which tracks trouble accessing online pages. "I have never seen Facebook down [...]
The Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) is restricting the operation of Boeing 737 MAX 8 and Boeing 737-9 in the Seychelles’ Flight Information Region effective as of Wednesday, March 13 from 4 p.m. local time. The Authority said the safety directive follows similar restrictions by other civil aviation authorities, including in Europe and Asia, requesting the suspension [...]
