Seychelles is partly on target to achieve its objective of vaccinating 70 percent of its local population in order to reopen its doors to visitors from anywhere in the world mid March, said a top health official. As of February 17, close to 41,840 people have received their first dose of vaccine which represents 60 [...]
South Africa launched its long-awaited coronavirus vaccine campaign on Wednesday while also becoming the first country worldwide to administer inoculations by US pharma giant Johnson & Johnson. President Cyril Ramaphosa was among the first to be inoculated after the rollout was delayed earlier this month. South Africa on February 1 received a million doses of [...]
Seychelles is budgeting more money for capital investment, particularly in the education and health sectors, worth SCR 1.9 billion ($94 million), a 58 percent increase compared to the 2020 budget, the Minister for Finance told the National Assembly on Tuesday. The Minister for Finance, Economic Planning and Trade, Naadir Hassan, said that the government's programme [...]
Australia's government said Thursday that Facebook was "heavy-handed" and "wrong" for introducing an unprecedented local ban on sharing news in response to pending legislation that would force the social media giant to pay for content.Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the US firm gave no notice it would revoke users' ability to post links to news articles [...]
The President of the Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, will travel to UAE this weekend, his second official visit to the regional power. According to State House, the President will be accompanied by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Sylvestre Radegonde. They will depart on Friday, February 19 and return on Monday, February 22. Ramkalawan's first [...]
Seychelles is expected to receive a fast patrol vessel from the Indian government next month to help its coast guard with maritime surveillance, a top official said on Wednesday. The chief of Defence Forces, Michael Rosette, told SNA that the vessel "will be used to do surveillance, rapid intervention and safeguarding our maritime areas, and [...]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended adding thousands of additional security forces to the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, according to a Security Council report obtained Tuesday by AFP. "The Central African Republic is at a critical juncture that will determine if peace and stability will be restored and put on a [...]
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks Wednesday ordained the world's only known specimen of a species of local tree, in an attempt to stop it being axed to make way for a motorway. The Sri Lanka Legume (Crudia zeylanica) was first classified in 1868 and last found in 1911. In 2012 it was declared extinct until the [...]
The Seychelles Fishing Authority is taking steps to ensure that vessels under Seychelles and European Union (EU) flags that are fishing tuna in Seychelles' waters bring in their quota of bycatch as per their agreement with the EU. The chief executive of the authority told a press conference recently that normally these ships, as per [...]
Nine people have drowned and hundreds are potentially missing after a passenger boat sunk near the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, local officials said Monday."A whaling barge overloaded with passengers and goods capsized at around 8 pm (1900 GMT) on Sunday on the Congo River 23 kilometres (14 miles) from Kinshasa," Charles Mbutamuntu, a [...]
