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Launch of the Seychelles News Agency, April 2014. Launched on 22 April 2014 during the opening of the biennial Seychelles honorary consuls conference held at the Kempinski Resort at Baie Lazare, the SNA is the Seychelles' first online news agency service. It provides daily news service in English and French languages. [2]
The tiny Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles declared a state of emergency Thursday after a huge blast at an explosives depot occurred after deadly flooding hit other parts of the country.
The Seychelles Nation is a daily newspaper in Seychelles. It is now considered to be the national newspaper of Seychelles and is published Mondays to Saturday by the National Information Services Agency (NISA). [1] The Seychelles Nation covers national, regional, sports, and international news.
The president of Seychelles is elected using the two-round system; [3] if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a second round is held between the top two candidates.
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Patrick Herminie was born on 22 September 1963 at Baie St. Anne Praslin Hospital, on Seychelles' second-largest island. He was the fourth of five children in a family where his mother, Christa Herminie (née Jules), was a housewife, and his father, Louis Herminie, worked as a policeman.
Seychelles has the highest literacy rate of any country in sub-Saharan Africa. [104] According to The World Factbook of the Central Intelligence Agency, as of 2018, 95.9% of the population aged 15 and over can read and write in the Seychelles. [104] Until the mid-19th century, little formal education was available in Seychelles.
The Seychelles News Agency writes that Seychelles has a zero-tolerance on drugs and the maximum sentence as regulated by the Misuse of Drugs Act, 2016 for drug trafficking is life imprisonment for a Class A drug and 50 years imprisonment for a Class B drug.