South Africa has recorded zero Covid-19 deaths in the last two days, for the first time since May 2020, health authorities said Tuesday. Covid has hit South Africa harder than any other country on the continent, making the drop in deaths all the more remarkable. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases made the announcement in [...]
Some 677,000 refugees have fled the conflict in Ukraine for safety in neighbouring countries, while around a million people are estimated to be internally displaced, the United Nations said Tuesday. The UN Refugee Agency chief Filippo Grandi said the numbers of people on the move was "extremely worrying", as Russian troops pound cities in eastern [...]
Fighting against corruption and improving the skills of health workers are two areas Seychelles and South Africa will focus on in their bilateral relations, said the newly accredited South African high commissioner. Hlamalani Manzini made the statement on Tuesday after presenting her credentials to the President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, at State House in Victoria, [...]
Seychellois based in Ukraine said they feel safe at the moment but the Seychelles' foreign affairs department is liaising with respective consuls in neighbouring countries to assist should the situation deteriorate. The director general of the Protocol, Consular and Diaspora Affairs, Jacques Belle, told SNA on Monday that there are currently three Seychellois living in [...]
Nigeria, South Africa and other African governments scrambled on Monday to help their citizens escape the Russian invasion in Ukraine after reports of racist and unfair treatment of Africans at border crossings. Africans in Ukraine, many of them students, are among hundreds of thousands of people trying to flee into Poland and other neighbours. Nigeria [...]
An overnight curfew and closing time for bars and casinos will be removed while family gatherings are permitted as of March 1 as health authorities in Seychelles relax measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Public Health Commissioner, Dr Jude Gedeon, told a press conference on Monday that the authorities have [...]
The Islands Development Company (IDC) plans to add a larger capacity aircraft to its aviation fleet to help with operations on Seychelles' outer islands, a top official said on Friday. "We felt that with all the developments taking place at IDC we had to enlarge our airplane float and the kind of planes that we [...]
Ukraine vowed not to give ground at talks with Moscow on Sunday as Ukrainian forces resisted a Russian invasion four days in and Moscow put its nuclear forces on high alert. Fighting has claimed dozens of civilian lives, forced hundreds and thousands of Ukrainians to flee west and could, according to the EU, eventually displace [...]
Pope Francis on Sunday called for an end to fighting in Ukraine on the fourth day of a Russian invasion of the country. "Let the weapons fall silent," he said. "God is with those who seek peace, not those resorting to violence." The Argentine pontiff also called for the "urgent" opening of humanitarian corridors to [...]
A clinic offering state-of-the-art cosmetic procedures and treatments has opened in Seychelles' Mont Fleuri district on the main island of Mahe. Victoria Aesthetics is aimed at Seychelles' residents who may spend large sums for these procedures overseas or have to wait for specialists brought into the island nation by the Ministry of Health. It currently offers [...]
