A top WHO official said Tuesday he was "extremely worried" over possible outbreaks in war-torn Gaza after poliovirus was detected in the sewage, warning that communicable diseases could cause more deaths than injuries. United Nations agencies said last week that the Global Polio Laboratory Network found vaccine-derived type-2 poliovirus in six environmental samples collected from [...]
Vice President Kamala Harris is narrowly beating rival Donald Trump in a national presidential poll released Tuesday, one of the first conducted since US President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign. Harris holds a two-point lead over Trump, 44 percent to 42 percent, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. It was conducted in the two days [...]
The Seychelles Investment Board (SIB) has announced the relaunching of tender submissions for the Victoria Waterfront project for Zone B and Zone D for applicants who had previously applied only and documents have to be submitted by 10 a.m. on August 26. The SIB chief executive, Anne Rosette, made this announcement in a press conference on Tuesday and confirmed that [...]
Military chaplains from nine member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are currently in Seychelles to discuss various subjects related to their work. The three-day Southern African Spiritual and Moral Support Working Group meeting was launched on Tuesday at the Military Training and Support Centre, at Perseverance. Twenty-one chaplains are participating including Seychelles, [...]
A year after deposing elected president Mohamed Bazoum, Niger's military rulers have been at pains to showcase their efforts aimed at restoring national "sovereignty" yet the country remains in thrall to jihadists. Since seizing power on July 26 last year the new government led by General Abdourahamane Tiani, former head of the presidential guard, has [...]
The US ambassador to the United Nations visited crisis-wracked Haiti on Monday, where she announced $60 million in additional humanitarian aid and received updates on the Kenya-led security support mission. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield held talks with the country's transitional presidential council and new Prime Minister Garry Conille during the day-long trip. "Haitians deserve free and [...]
The Bangladeshi student group leading demonstrations that have spiralled into deadly violence suspended protests Monday for 48 hours, with its leader saying they had not wanted reform "at the expense of so much blood". What began as demonstrations against politicised admission quotas for sought-after government jobs snowballed into some of the worst unrest of Prime [...]
A group of professionals working in cybersecurity are participating in the second edition of the National Cyber Drill 2024, an exercise to test and assess the capabilities of these professionals in Seychelles to ensure the country's readiness against cyberattacks. During his opening speech, the principal secretary for the Department of Information, Communication and Technology (DICT), Benjamin [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) and the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) recently signed two memorandums of understanding (MOU) to enhance the use of local currencies in settling cross-border financial, commercial transactions, interlinking payment and messaging systems between the two countries. According to a joint press communique from the CBS and [...]
The Pacific Disaster Centre in the USA has sent its adviser for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief initiatives, Steve Recca, to visit the headquarters of the Red Cross Society of Seychelles (RCSS) on Friday to take stock of the damages caused by the December 7 explosion at the Providence Industrial Estate. Recca, accompanied by the U.S. [...]
