Three World Health Organisation specialists in epidemiology, laboratory and data analysis from the Africa CDC are doing a comprehensive evaluation on the COVID-19 situation in Seychelles, a health official said Thursday, a boost in expertise that comes as the presence of three COVID variants were confirmed in the archipelago. The Public Health Commissioner told a [...]
An airstrike on a busy market killed or wounded dozens in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, survivors and emergency workers said Wednesday, as a seven-month-old conflict surged again. Families rushed to a hospital in the regional capital Mekele as the casualties, including many children, arrived from nearby Togoga, where witnesses and medical personnel said a busy [...]
Russia on Thursday reported more than 20,000 new coronavirus infections and 568 deaths, reaching January highs, as the country battles a surging outbreak of the Delta variant worsened by a sluggish jab drive. In total, officials reported 20,182 new cases across the country over the past 24 hours, including just over 8,500 infections in Moscow, [...]
The Public Utilities Corporation in Seychelles is urging members of the public to conserve water now that the country has entered its dry season. The public relations officer of PUC, Brigitte Payet, told a press conference on Wednesday that residents “can do this by making some adjustments with how water is used at home daily… [...]
The developer of the Anse La Mouche hotel project in Seychelles might be given a work stoppage notice for conducting an unapproved barging on the beach opposite the site, a government official said. The chief executive of the town and country planning authority, Angela Servina, told a press conference on Wednesday that the authority received [...]
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of five Melon-Headed whales that washed up on the shores of Seychelles' remote St. Francois Atoll are yet to be established. A senior conservation ranger of Island Conservation Society (ICS) working on Alphonse, Christopher Narty, told SNA recently that the cause of death of the melon-headed whales is uncertain, and that based on photos [...]
South Africa will host the continent's first Covid-19 vaccine production facility, as President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday Africa now understood that doses would "never come" from elsewhere in time to save lives. Ramaphosa joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and French President Emmanuel Macron in announcing the new hub for Messenger RNA coronavirus vaccine technology. [...]
World powers gathered Wednesday in Berlin to seek lasting peace in Libya by ensuring the conflict-wracked North African country stays firmly on the path towards general elections on December 24. Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah of Libya's interim government is joining US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as well as the foreign ministers of France, [...]
The Maldives is looking into the possibility of having a direct flight with Seychelles as well as further cooperation in the areas of fisheries, education and youth, said the newly accredited high commissioner. Omar Abdul Razzak presented his credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday at State House. Razzak told reporters that he hopes that [...]
Australia said Tuesday it will strongly oppose a UNESCO plan to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger" over deterioration caused by climate change. The UN body released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef's World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral decline, after years of public threats to do [...]