The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted two resolutions to create a mission in Sudan to support the country's political transition and extend the mandate of peacekeepers in Darfur, diplomats said. The resolution on the new United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) was drafted by Britain and Germany. The mission was [...]
Taking hydroxychloroquine shortly after being exposed to COVID-19 does not help prevent infection in a statistically meaningful way, scientists reported Wednesday following a clinical trial. The medicine has been touted by US President Donald Trump, who has said he used it as a prophylaxis against the novel coronavirus. But an experiment involving 821 people across [...]
Local semi-industrial fishermen can gradually go back out to sea as export routes become available from June 1 when the Seychelles' international airport resumed commercial activities. The interim chief executive of the Seychelles Fisheries Authority (SFA), Cyril Bonnelame, said the authority is working with fishermen and exporters to help them find a market for their fish. [...]
Cyclone Nisarga ripped roofs off homes in a coastal town near Mumbai Wednesday after officials ordered offices and factories to shut and told people to stay home, reversing a move to ease a coronavirus lockdown in the Indian megacity. Mumbai and its surrounds are usually sheltered from cyclones -- the last severe storm to hit [...]
The health authority in Seychelles said on Tuesday that the group of 50 health professionals from Kenya currently on the island nation will be deployed to all health facilities to conduct screenings. The chief executive of the Health Care Agency, Danny Louange, said the group will be at the forefront of the screenings which have [...]
A South African court on Tuesday ruled that certain coronavirus lockdown regulations were "unconstitutional and invalid" after a community group challenged the validity of the government's response to the pandemic last month. The "Liberty Fighters Network" filed a legal challenge against the national state of disaster declared by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the start of [...]
The health authorities have received about 15 requests for permission to enter the Seychelles with the opening of the seaport and airport on June 1, a top official said on Tuesday. "We have received requests from yachts and private jets. When carrying out risk analysis, we found that allowing open-entry commercial flights will pose a [...]
With nearly 30,000 dead in Brazil and more than 10,000 dead in Mexico, the novel coronavirus epidemic threatens to shatter hospital systems across Latin America -- while France, which is emerging from a similar nightmare scenario, begins on Tuesday a gradual return to normalcy. Four of the 10 countries showing the greatest number of new [...]
A Justice of Appeal, Anthony Fernando, was sworn in as the president of the Seychelles' Court of Appeal on Monday in a ceremony at State House. Fernando was appointed by President Danny Faure following the recommendation of the Constitutional Appointments Authority. Fernando who was the acting president of the Court of Appeal since April 1, [...]
The European Union (EU) has commended Seychelles on its new Domestic Violence Bill. The Ambassador of the European Union to Seychelles Vincent Degert, said in a statement that "the adoption of the Domestic Violence Bill marks an important turning point in the fight against violence on women. It provides the legal basis for defining different [...]
