Nearly 200 people have died in flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains across 12 states in Nigeria, the country's main relief agency said on Thursday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 199 people had lost their lives after the main Niger and Benue rivers burst their banks. A national disaster has been declared in [...]
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is expected in Seychelles next month on a three-day official visit following an invitation from President Danny Faure, who visited Sri Lanka last year. Sirisena will be the second Sri Lankan President to visit the island nation in the western Indian Ocean in the last five years. The President’s visit is [...]
World leaders gathered in New York on Wednesday to try to breathe new life into the Paris global climate accord, amid backsliding from several nations over commitments made in the historic deal. The "One Planet Summit," launched last year by French President Emmanuel Macron, aims to accelerate the implementation of the 2015 pact. "We are [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, called for a new economic model that takes the specific needs of small island states into consideration in his address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, State House said on Tuesday. Faure drew the Assembly’s attention to the theme of the 73rd session ‘Making the United [...]
Economic activity in the United States could fall more than two percent within a year if Washington launched a trade war on a wide front, European Central Bank researchers suggested Wednesday. The forecast comes as officials like ECB President Mario Draghi and World Trade Organization chief Roberto Azevedo warn of protectionism's rising threat to the [...]
Happy Youth Club -- the oldest recreational club in Seychelles -- is celebrating 55 years of existence. It was on September 7, 1963, that the club was opened in Victoria as a place where young people can hang out and socialise. Local historian Tony Mathiot told SNA last week that the club was the initiative of [...]
Disgraced television icon Bill Cosby was handcuffed and taken into custody Tuesday to begin a minimum three-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago. The 81-year-old, once beloved by millions as "America's Dad," is the first celebrity convicted and sentenced for a sex crime since the fall of [...]
South Africa on Tuesday announced visa reforms aimed at luring investment and tourists to help lift the continent's most advanced economy out of recession. Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba unveiled a raft of regulations allowing frequent visitors and foreign business travellers to have long-term multiple-entry visas of up to 10 years. The rules will take [...]
World leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to ensure that they govern with the philosophies of peace and equitable progress championed by the late South African President Nelson Mandela, Seychelles’ President Danny Faure said in New York. Faure made the statement on Monday in his address at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit at the 73rd session [...]
Seychelles is seeking international assistance to help the country move another step further from fossil fuel-generated electricity. Preliminary discussions have started for a project to build a liquefied natural gas power plant to generate electricity locally. An economic adviser to President Danny Faure, Bertrand Belle, chaired the first meeting with key partners as three experts [...]