Seychellois artist and entertainer Joseph Sinon says the downturn in the entertainment business due to COVID-19 is forcing him to travel to Mauritius to perform. Sinon left Seychelles last Friday for Mauritius, where he plans to perform in eight musical shows in several venues including Grand Baie and Flic en Flac. On Christmas Day, the [...]
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has won a second term in office, the electoral commission announced Wednesday, a result his rival John Mahama's party said it would appeal. The West African country is known for its stable democracy, but tensions rose over Monday's presidential and legislative vote after Mahama claimed to have won a parliamentary majority [...]
Seychelles' Central Bank governor, Caroline Abel, received an Africa's Woman Leaders award in a virtual ceremony, the Bank said Wednesday. Abel said the award "comes at a time when the well-known statement - the true test of leadership is observed during a crisis - has never been more accurate, due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic," [...]
The new Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria met with President Wave Ramkalawan on Wednesday and said that the church should have a stronger participation in the education sector in the island nation Bishop Alain Harel said he intends to focus on education and responding to social ills such as drug abuse [...]
Despite calls for ceasefires and compassion amid the Covid-19 pandemic, violence and persecution have continued to force people from their homes, with record numbers now displaced, the UN said Wednesday. By the end of 2019, 79.5 million people were living uprooted and displaced, including nearly 30 million refugees -- more than one percent of the [...]
Britain on Tuesday hailed a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, as it begins the biggest vaccination programme in the country's history with a new Covid-19 jab. The first patients in line on what has been dubbed "V-Day" -- the over-80s, care home workers and at-risk frontline health and social care staff [...]
In its 2019 report launched last week, Seychelles' Auditor General revealed that $28 million in uncollected revenues due to the island nation's government is tax money. Some of the uncollected taxes date as far back as 2010. SNA met up with the commissioner general of the Seychelles Revenue Commission, Veronique Herminie, to know more about the [...]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria in Seychelles has a new bishop who says he wants to keep track of what residents of the island nation see as their values and challenges. Alain Harel – a Mauritian national - becomes the tenth bishop to head the Roman Catholic Church of the island nation since [...]
Kelly-Mary Anette reacted with shock and disbelief as she walked down the stage Monday evening to receive her Miss Seychelles 2020 crown and sash. Anette, an economist with the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Trade, won the title among 10 other contestants, giving Seychelles a new beauty queen after a two-year hiatus. "I feel really [...]
Pope Francis has donated 100,000 euros to a fund helping hundreds of thousands of people displaced by a violent Islamist insurgency ravaging northern Mozambique, a bishop said Monday. The fund was set up by Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa, who is in charge of the troubled northern Cabo Delgado province, to help victims of the violence [...]
