Seychelles lost one of its top female athletes after the passing of long-distance record-holding runner Simone Dick last Friday at the age of 44. Dick, who hailed from Copolia in the central district of Plaisance, was laid to rest on Thursday in a private ceremony. The Seychellois athlete, who worked as a senior postman [...]
The World Health Organization on Thursday slammed Europe's "unacceptably slow" vaccine rollout and said the region's surge in coronavirus infections was "worrying". "Vaccines present our best way out of this pandemic... However, the rollout of these vaccines is unacceptably slow" and is "prolonging the pandemic", WHO director for Europe Hans Kluge said in a statement. [...]
More than 8,100 people have reached safety outside the northern Mozambican town of Palma a week after it was besieged by jihadists, the UN said Wednesday, as thousands others remained stranded. Armed militants raided the coastal town on March 24, ransacking buildings and beheading residents as thousands fled into surrounding forest. Dozens have been killed [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has welcomed its first cohort of financial ambassadors after launching its first-ever Youth 4 Youth – a Financial Education Youth Ambassadors Programme. Forty-three participants ages 16 to 30 were selected for the one-year programme which will include a knowledge and skills component on various finance-related topics. The candidates will have the opportunity to help [...]
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) will soon use two newly acquired drones to conduct near-shore missions to support fisheries surveillance efforts, increasing the authority's reach. The new plan follows the attempt to launch a similar project in 2018, a plan that failed due to unforeseen issues of operating fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and drone [...]
Soldiers were arrested in Niger after an "attempted coup" early Wednesday, a security source said after gunfire broke out in the capital Niamey, adding "the situation is under control". Residents reported hearing overnight bursts of gunfire near the presidency, just two days before Mohamed Bazoum is due to take the helm of the coup-prone country. [...]
Indonesian firefighters were working Wednesday to put out a large blaze at one of the country's biggest oil refineries that has been burning for more than two days after an explosion rocked the facility. Crews blasted fire-suppressing foam on two still-burning storage tanks to quench the inferno that severely injured at least six people early [...]
One year after Seychelles legally designated 30 percent of its territorial waters as marine protected areas 10 years ahead of international targets, efforts are now underway to develop a legal and strategic framework as well as a management plan for each of these sites. The principal secretary for the environment, Alain Decomarmond, said each site [...]
The Marine Conservation Society Seychelles (MCSS) recently started a large-scale coral reef restoration project in the Ste Anne Marine National Park with the aim of improving food security and livelihoods and mitigating the effects of coastal erosion. Through the project, the society is increasing its efforts to restore coral that have been damaged by coral [...]
A team of international experts will present details Tuesday of their findings from a mission to China, which concluded Covid-19 probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal, all but ruling out a laboratory leak. But the report, drafted by World Health Organization-appointed international experts and their Chinese counterparts, offers no definitive [...]
