Congress formally certified Joe Biden as the next US president on Thursday, dealing a hammer blow to Donald Trump whose supporters stormed the Capitol hours earlier, triggering unprecedented scenes of mayhem in the seat of American democracy. Lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives successfully beat back Republican efforts to deny Biden the electoral [...]
Seychelles’ Foreign Affairs Ministry has announced that the State Councilor and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, will visit the island nation on January 8. Yi’s one-day visit is the final leg of his five-day official tour in five African countries. During his official visit to the islands, the Chinese Foreign [...]
Ghanaian soldiers intervened in parliament to quell a clash between opposing parties in chaotic scenes overnight ahead of the body's swearing-in on Thursday. Mayhem erupted after a lawmaker from the ruling party tried to seize the ballot box during the vote for parliament speaker. The ensuing clash lasted several hours until the army moved in, [...]
The year 2020 brought about challenges globally and in Seychelles as the COVID-19 spread and dominated news at both international and local levels. As the news begins its charge into 2021, SNA looks back at its five most-read articles of 2020. The entire SNA team thanks all of our readers in our great island nation [...]
A ban on the importation of balloons by both businesses and individuals into Seychelles will take effect April 1, said a top official. Two months later a total ban will be in place, a policy change aimed at a cleaner environment for the island nation. "We have given the space of three months from now for [...]
An expert mission to China to find the origins of the coronavirus pandemic stumbled before it even began, with the head of the World Health Organization complaining that Beijing was blocking the team from entering the country. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was "very disappointed" with the last-minute bar on entry, in a [...]
New legislation addressing sexual crimes against children is being proposed to update some of the "archaic" systems that currently exist in Seychelles, Justice Mathilda Twomey said. The chairperson of the Seychelles Child Law Reform Committee said Seychelles has systems "that we must get rid of." The committee is recommending the introduction of a range of [...]
Hopeful Democrats were scenting victory Tuesday night in two knife-edge runoff races in Georgia that are set to determine the balance of power in the US Senate under Joe Biden's presidency. The hard-fought races have brought the international spotlight onto this southern state, nine weeks after the most tumultuous American election in two decades. Democrats [...]
Three Seychellois will be filling the referee roles during the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League game between teams from Kenya and Algeria scheduled for Wednesday in Nairobi. Veteran referee Bernard Camille will lead as central referee with his two colleagues Steven Marie and Hansley Petrousse assisting him. Referee Hendrick Mathieu also made the [...]
Seychelles is expected to roll out its COVID-19 vaccination plan this week, a health official said, even as cases of the virus continue to increase and spread to other islands of the archipelago. The second- and third-most populated islands of Praslin and La Digue recorded their first cases of infections and suspected cases in the [...]
