Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire on Palestinians scrambling for food aid on Thursday in a chaotic incident that the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said killed more than 100 people. Though there were conflicting reports on how the pre-dawn incident unfolded, the Israeli military said a "stampede" occurred when thousands [...]
Seychelles, together with other member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO), is working on a treaty that will have several guidelines to better prepare the world in the event of another pandemic, a top health official said on Thursday. The Minister for Health, Peggy Vidot, told reporters that the proposal, which has garnered criticisms [...]
A first batch of corals will be ready to be transplanted by July this year from the first regenerative coral aquaculture facility being built on Praslin, said Dr Nirmal Shah, the chief executive of Nature Seychelles, a not-for-profit environmental organisation. The regenerative coral aquaculture facility designed to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on coral reefs in Seychelles is a highly innovative project and the first [...]
Seychelles' capital city Victoria and the city of Grodzisk Mazowiecki in Poland will enhance existing cooperation through a newly signed partnership agreement. The agreement, which was signed in a virtual ceremony recently by the acting Mayor of Victoria, Lydia Charie, and Grzegorz Benedykciński, Mayor of Grodzisk Mazowiecki, was initiated by the Polish Embassy in Nairobi. [...]
The government of Senegal President Macky Sall on Wednesday adopted an amnesty bill aimed at bringing "appeasement" as the country reels from its biggest political crisis in decades. Senegal's crisis was sparked by Sall postponing a presidential election that was due to take place last Sunday. The amnesty, which must first pass through the national [...]
The world generated 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste last year and the pile of trash is set to grow another two-thirds by 2050, the UN said Wednesday, warning of devastating costs for health, economies and the environment. Pollution is set to escalate, according to new research by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), with projections [...]
New regulations for the importation of vehicles are expected to be in force before January 2025 and they will lay out the minimum requirements needed for motor vehicle dealers to import any transport to Seychelles, said a top official on Wednesday. The regulation will primarily be geared towards safety and one of the aspects is [...]
Seychelles is expected to repay its debt to Russia by 2027, after both nations agreed on the restructuring of a loan taken in 1987. Dick Labonte, the director general for the Debt Management Division within the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade, said during a press conference on Tuesday, that there is $2.4 million [...]
More than two million animals have died in Mongolia so far this winter, a government official said Monday, as the country endures extreme cold and snow. The landlocked country is no stranger to severe weather from December to March, when temperatures plummet as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenheit) in some areas. [...]
While Macron did not provide any details, the French foreign ministry said the idea did not foresee French troops directly fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters, Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said on Tuesday: "We are talking about training missions, training components. Training." Former senior NATO official Camille Grand said Macron's statements were [...]
