More than four million people have now died from Covid-19, the WHO said on Wednesday, as many rich nations prepare to loosen restrictions even as countries in Asia battle surging infections. Millions are facing new lockdowns across Asia and Indonesia has emerged as a global hotspot with death rates rising tenfold in a month to [...]
Two elderly Danish nationals were rescued in the Seychelles' waters by the Coast Guard after they experienced difficulty and needed assistance, the Seychelles People's Defence Forces (SPDF) said. SPDF said that the two elderly Danish nationals, a man and a woman "were sailing to Seychelles from Mayotte Island when the lady was badly injured with [...]
Haitian police killed four "mercenaries" they said were behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moise Wednesday and took two more into custody, as the impoverished and crisis-hit Caribbean nation was pitched into uncertainty. Police did not identify the suspects or say what their motives were for the gun attack on Moise and his wife Martine, [...]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff-level agreement on a $107 million arrangement under the extended fund facility to help support Seychelles' economic reform programme. The announcement was made Wednesday in a press conference in which high level officials from the government gave details on economic reforms that Seychelles will implement that are [...]
Lebanon's caretaker premier Hassan Diab on Tuesday urged donors to "save" the country, despite the fact it has no formal government, as it struggles through a dire economic crisis. Warning that Lebanon is "just days away from a social explosion," Diab urged the international community to "help save Lebanese from death and prevent Lebanon's demise". [...]
Ethiopia has started the second phase of filling the reservoir of its mega-dam on the upper Blue Nile, Egypt and Sudan said, raising tensions Tuesday ahead of an upcoming UN Security Council meeting on the divisive project. Both Cairo and Khartoum said they had been notified by Addis Ababa that the second phase of filling [...]
Seychelles will test the functionality of its national anti-trafficking in persons legislation in the coming days through a simulation exercise. The exercise is taking place at the Regional Fusion Centre and Law Enforcement Safety and Security (REFLECS 3) base at Bois de Rose on the outskirt of Victoria, the capital The United Nations Office on [...]
The UK announced plans to further relax to its pandemic curbs on Tuesday despite warning that the number of daily new cases is set to more than treble to reach 100,000. From August 16, adults in England who have received both doses of a coronavirus vaccine will no longer need to self-isolate if they are [...]
The government of Seychelles has launched a liability management operations programme, which will be part of the economic reforms to ensure the sustainability of its debts, a top official said Tuesday. The liability management operations will include a securities exchange, in a bid to restructure the country's local debts, the Secretary of State for Finance, [...]
The Seychelles Police Force has recorded 14 cases of Seychellois who are being detained against their will in Middle East countries, said a top official on Tuesday. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Errol Fonseka, made this statement when answering questions dealing with national security and the police force in the National Assembly. Gervais Henrie, the [...]