Seychelles' housing and population census is again being pushed back and is now expected to take place in 2022 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. The census is normally done every 10 years and had been due in 2020, but the global pandemic made it difficult to conduct the survey [...]
The United States and Australia announced their first locally transmitted cases of the Omicron variant as authorities worldwide rushed Friday to stem the spread of the heavily mutated strain of Covid-19. The World Health Organization has said it could take weeks to determine whether Omicron is more transmissible and whether it causes more severe infections [...]
Somalia's "rapidly worsening" drought has left more than two million people facing severe food and water shortages, the United Nations said, warning of a fourth consecutive season of poor rainfall in the conflict-wracked country. "About 2.3 million people in 57 of 74 districts... are ravaged by serious water, food and pasture shortages as water pans [...]
President Wavel Ramkalawan of Seychelles sent his warmest wishes to Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, on the occasion of the UAE's National Day on Thursday. This year, the people of UAE celebrated their 50th National Day. Exactly 50 years ago today, leaders of the six Emirates of Abu [...]
The possible maritime security assistance to Seychelles by the East African Standby Force (EASF) was one of the areas discussed between the director of the force and President Wavel Ramkalawan on Thursday. The EASF Director, Brigadier General Getachew Shiferaw Fayisa, paid a courtesy visit to the President at State House. "We updated the President on [...]
Saudi Arabia recorded the Gulf's first confirmed case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, followed hours later by a case in the UAE, health ministries in both countries said Wednesday. "One case of the Omicron variant has been detected in the kingdom -- it was a citizen coming from a North African country," a [...]
Ten out of 13 tuna purse seiners fishing under the flag of Seychelles have stopped operations for 2021 after having reached their allocated yellowfin tuna quota for the year, a top fisheries official said. The chief fisheries officer at the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Vincent Lucas, told SNA on Thursday that usually vessels start reaching [...]
Global warming played only a minimal role in the famine that has hit Madagascar, according to a new study published Thursday which contradicts a UN description of the crisis as a "climate change famine". The southern Indian Ocean island off Africa has been hit by its worst drought in four decades. The UN's World Food [...]
Participants in a workshop to mark World AIDS Day on Wednesday lit candles and set them afloat in a pool at the Savoy Resort and Spa. This year is the 40th anniversary of the first HIV/AIDS case ever recorded. In Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, the first HIV/AIDS case was detected in 1987. [...]
World Health Organization member states agreed Wednesday to start building a new international accord on how to handle future pandemics and ensure there can be no repeat of Covid-19. The economic turmoil and millions of lives lost during the coronavirus crisis triggered calls for new international defences strong enough to prevent a future such disaster. [...]
