The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the second disbursement, a sum of $34 million, of its loan to Seychelles, even as the Cabinet of Ministers decided that employees at state-owned enterprises will not receive any bonuses or incentives for 2021, officials said Monday. The disbursement is part of the 32-month extended arrangement under the [...]
The top UN rights body agreed Friday to send international investigators to conflict-hit Ethiopia amid warnings of looming generalised violence, in a move slammed by Addis Ababa. Following an emergency meeting, the 47-member UN Human Rights Council narrowly voted in favour of ordering the probe into a wide range of alleged violations by all sides [...]
Emirates Airline will boost services to Seychelles by offering twice-daily flights from December 24 to January 9 to meet market demand during the holiday season. The airline announced on Friday that a second daily service will boost tourism to Seychelles this winter holiday, especially from popular inbound markets including France, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, [...]
Top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci on Sunday warned of a bleak winter ahead as the Omicron coronavirus variant spurs a new wave of infections globally, sparking restrictions and concerns over hospital capacity. "One thing that's very clear... is (Omicron's) extraordinary capability of spreading," Fauci told NBC News. "It is just... raging through the world." [...]
London mayor Sadiq Khan on Saturday declared a "major incident" in the British capital due to the spread of the Omicron variant. More than 65,000 new Covid cases were confirmed in London over the past seven days, and 26,418 cases reported in the last 24 hours -– the highest number since the start of the [...]
A Madagascar court convicted five people, including two Frenchmen, to up to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the Indian Ocean nation. The defendants were among 20 people accused of trying to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina in July. On Friday, a court found five of them guilty of plotting an assassination, compromising [...]
Seychelles has won the World's Most Romantic Destination title for the second consecutive year at the 28th World Travel Awards, the Tourism Department said Thursday. The island nation came in first in the romance category ahead of other nominees which included Antigua & Barbuda, the Atacama Desert, Chile, Bali, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Maldives, Mauritius, Saint [...]
Around 100 performing artists will participate in Seychelles' first telethon on December 18 to raise funds for the children of Seychelles and Madagascar and the artists themselves. Gilles Lionnet, who is a member of Telethon's organising committee, told the press on Wednesday that already SCR 400,000 has been raised out of which 80 percent will [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court on Friday officially charged six suspects arrested in the case of the missing $50 million. The $50 million was granted to the government of Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, by the United Arab Emirates in 2002. The fund was transferred to a bank account of the Seychelles Marketing [...]
Thousands of people in the Philippines fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Super Typhoon Rai pummelled the country Thursday, with a charity warning the storm could hit coastal communities "like a freight train". Rai is the strongest storm to hit the disaster-prone archipelago this year. It was packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres [...]
