DR Congo on Wednesday declared the end of its latest Ebola epidemic, closing the file on an outbreak in the northwestern province of Equateur that claimed 55 lives in nearly six months. "I am happy to solemnly declare the end of the 11th epidemic of the Ebola virus," Health Minister Eteni Longondo told journalists. The [...]
The US will slash troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to their lowest in nearly 20 years, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, prompting security worries among allies and fear on Kabul's streets after President Donald Trump pledged to end conflicts abroad.Rejecting concerns that precipitous drawdowns could give up security gains after years of fighting, Acting [...]
The Seychelles' government should work closely and give more support to local non-profit organisations, the award-winning chief warden of Cousin Island Special Reserve told SNA. Late last month, Seychellois Dailus Laurence won the 2020 African Ranger Award, a recognition promoted by the Alibaba Foundation and the Paradise Foundation. The goal of the African Ranger Award [...]
Seychelles has lost one of its two remaining World War II veterans after Samuel Joliecoeur passed away last month at age 98. Jolicoeur will be laid to rest on Wednesday at 2 p.m. local time at the Ste Therese church of Plaisance. The veteran who was born on March 22, 1922, joined the British Army [...]
Francisco Sagasti, sworn-in as Peru's interim president on Tuesday at the age of 76, is a novice politician with an academic background who has been a member of Congress only since March. Yet his profile as a moderate has won him acceptance as a consensus politician in a nation seeking to navigate its way out [...]
Seychelles will close three of its overseas embassies and government and private sector employees will not be paid a 13th month of salary this year, two major steps the government is taking to curb expenditures amid the financial crunch caused by COVID-19. The announcement was made by President Wavel Ramkalawan in his first address to [...]
Seychelles is listed in the 2020 Mo Ibrahim Index as one of only eight countries in Africa which have managed to improve their governance in the past decade. The island nation is third in 54 African countries for overall good governance. The 2020 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), launched on Monday in Senegal and the [...]
Hurricane Iota was barreling through Central America on Tuesday, hours after making landfall as the strongest Atlantic storm this year along a stretch of Nicaraguan coast devastated by a powerful storm just two weeks ago. Authorities rushed to evacuate thousands of people from coastal areas of Nicaragua and Honduras in the immediate path of the [...]
Devika Vidot, 31, is the youngest minister President Wavel Ramkalawan's new 13-member Cabinet. Vidot heads the Ministry of Investment, Entrepreneurship & Industry. The new minister has a background in accounting, finance, and financial services domain, as well as a little in business and entrepreneurship. SNA learned more about her through an interview Vidot gave to [...]
African leaders tried Monday to kickstart talks in Ethiopia's escalating internal conflict, two days after rocket strikes on Eritrea's capital highlighted the risk that the fighting could spread. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni held talks with Ethiopia's deputy prime minister Demeke Mekonnen, while former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo headed to Addis Ababa to make his bid [...]
