The world is coming to a standstill as the new coronavirus spreads: schools have closed in Japan, rallies are banned in Switzerland and flights are canceled worldwide. That is putting the global economy at the greatest risk of recession since the 2008 financial crisis. "With the partial exception of the Black Death in 14th century [...]
The Seychelles' Public Health Authority has informed that a visitor admitted at the isolation centre at Anse Royale as part of preventive measures in place has tested negative for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Public Health Commissioner, Jude Gedeon, told a news conference on Friday morning that the Authority was alerted by a doctor who [...]
Seychelles will present its first Voluntary National Review to the United Nations this year on the progress made on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the country. The update will take place at the High-level Political Forum held July 7-16 in New York. The principal secretary at the Economic Planning Department, Elizabeth [...]
Nigeria reported the first new coronavirus case in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday, as global stock markets tanked on deepening fears of a pandemic and the World Health Organization warned against the "fatal mistake" of complacency. The virus has proliferated around the globe over the past week, emerging in every continent except Antarctica, prompting many governments [...]
The status of seychellum alluaudi will be established in a new project initiated by the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change. The project aims to set up an inventory of fishes and crustaceans in rivers of Mahe and Praslin - the main and second-most populated islands. A similar exercise in 2003 discovered a new fish [...]
The International Olympic Committee is "fully committed" to holding the 2020 Games in Tokyo as planned despite the widening new coronavirus outbreak, the body's president has pledged. The IOC "is fully committed to a successful Olympic Games in Tokyo starting July 24", Thomas Bach told Japanese media in a conference call late Thursday, according to [...]
The African Union chief on Thursday highlighted "differences" over topics like international justice and gay rights at a meeting with the European Union intended to deepen the partnership between their continents. "Certainly, we have our differences. International criminal justice, sexual orientation and identity, the death penalty, the centrality of the African Union in certain crises, [...]
Seychellois students will be able to further their studies in even more fields at the University of Botswana, a high official said on Wednesday. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Botswana, David Norris, spoke to the press after paying a courtesy call to the Seychelles' president, Danny Faure, at State House, Victoria. "I indicated to [...]
For so many centuries, the Seychelles Islands remained virtually unknown, hidden in the expanse of the Indian Ocean by the secret of their isolation. Adventurous navigators and explorers might have been lured to her shores to avail themselves of water from her streams, of her tortoises for food and of her precious hardwood timber to [...]
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi paid his respects Wednesday at the military funeral of former leader Hosni Mubarak, whose three decades of strong-arm rule ended in the Arab Spring protests of 2011. The presidential office declared three days of mourning for the veteran head of state dubbed a modern-day "pharaoh", who died aged 91 in [...]
