Category: News
$4 trillion fund holders tell Brazil to halt deforestation
Investment funds managing close to $4 trillion in assets called on Brazil Tuesday to halt deforestation of the Amazon in an open letter warning that b [...]
Seychelles’ Central Bank cuts interest rate to 3 percent amidst COVID downturn
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has cut the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to three per cent down from 4 per cent. The governor of the bank said Mond [...]
Malawi holds closely watched presidential re-run
Malawians return to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in just over a year to vote for a new president after Peter Mutharika's re-election was a [...]
Malian opposition slaps president’s ‘outstretched hand’
Mali's beleaguered President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's attempts to soften his iron-fisted image appear to be falling flat as a newly energised oppositi [...]
COVID collateral damage: 53 Seychellois students must defer overseas study to 2021
Fifty-three students from Seychelles who had been expecting to pursue studies abroad in 2020 have been deferred to next year due to the COVID-19 pande [...]
Seychelles’ main political parties urge citizens to register to vote in October election
The two main political parties in Seychelles, United Seychelles (US) and Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), are urging first-time voters to register and [...]
Unpaid foreign domestic workers stranded in crisis-hit Lebanon
A week after her Lebanese employer kicked her out without her luggage, pay or passport, all Ethiopian domestic worker Sofia wants is to go home as Leb [...]
Latin America and Caribbean top 2 million COVID-19 cases
Latin America and the Caribbean on Saturday surpassed two million coronavirus cases, with Brazil home to more than half of the infections, according t [...]
SNA talks with Mazaren, conservation master who sees self-reliance as Seychelles’ economic recovery
The name Mazaren in Seychelles is like the name Steve Irwin in Australia, for he is well known as a conservationist with a vast knowledge of the islan [...]
Egypt calls on UN to intervene after impasse in Nile dam talks
Egypt appealed on Friday for the United Nations Security Council to intervene in a deepening dispute with Ethiopia over its gigantic Nile dam that Cai [...]