The Seychelles' national football team will face Nigeria in its second qualification match for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) on Saturday at Stad Linite. With Nigeria having just participated in the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Russia in June, the match is expected to be a tough one for the Seychelles' side. [...]
A greater number of fishing vessels will be catered for in Seychelles after phase two of the Providence Artisanal Fisheries Facilities was inaugurated on Thursday. Phase two of the development, costing approximately $10 million, includes the expansion of 216 metres of quay, ten mooring buoys, a landing shed and a ten-tonne ice-making facility among others. [...]
It was like a scene from a Bollywood blockbuster as staff at one of New Delhi's most luxurious hotels performed an elaborate dance routine in the lobby to celebrate a historic Supreme Court ruling on gay rights. The Lalit hotel's Keshav Suri, one of the court's petitioners, entered the lobby to rousing applause, gave his [...]
The United States told the UN's top court Wednesday it had "a duty" not to take a position on a bitter dispute over the British-ruled Chagos islands, home to a strategic joint US military base. Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague are listening to arguments from various countries in a case [...]
A newly launched web-based regional platform is expected to make dealing with issues of Illegal fishing, piracy attacks and drug trafficking in the Indian Ocean more efficient and prompt. The Indian Ocean Regional Information Sharing (IORIS) and the Incident Management network was launched on Tuesday at the Eden Bleu Hotel, on the eastern coast of [...]
Fregate Island is the easternmost of the Seychelles granitic Inner Islands, located 55 km east of the main island of Mahé. Accessible by sea and air – the island is an example of both luxury and conservation at its best. This week SNA presents 5 species visitors can discover on Fregate ... Source: Seychelles News Agency
Twenty Tanzanian prison officers have joined the Seychelles Prison Services to beef up security at the island nation’s main facility prison at Montagne Posee, a top official said Tuesday. The superintendent of the Seychelles Prison Service, Raymond St Ange, said that the officers have come at an opportune time. Last month, an inmate died after [...]
A powerful 6.6-magnitude quake rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Thursday, killing two people, collapsing homes, and triggering landslides that left dozens missing. Multiple, large-scale landslides struck the sparsely populated countryside, which was also hit by the edge of a powerful typhoon that surged through Japan earlier this week. Aerial views showed dozens of [...]
Seychelles will be connected to the Pakistan East Africa Cable Express (PEACE) by a submarine cable system following the signing of contractual documents, State House said on Wednesday. The signing, witnessed by the island nation’s President Danny Faure, took place on Wednesday in Beijing between the Seychelles Cable Systems Company (SCS), Huawei Marine Networks, Peace [...]
The United Nations envoy to Iraq called Wednesday for "calm" in Basra, after six died in the bloodiest day of protests over poor public services in the southern city. In a statement, Jan Kubis, the UN's special representative in Iraq, called on "the authorities to avoid using disproportionate, lethal force against the demonstrators". He also [...]