French authorities could be forced to impose new lockdowns in a bid to contain another surge in coronavirus cases that is putting a strain on hospitals, Prime Minister Jean Castex warned Monday. "If over the next two weeks we see the epidemic indicators worsen, if intensive care beds fill up even more than we expect, [...]
Shanna Charlette is the first Seychellois woman to join the Public Utilities Corporation as an electrical engineer. The 24-year-old rejoined the company after completing an electrical engineering course at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, where she earned a first-class with honours for her master’s degree programme. Charlette first joined PUC after completing [...]
African countries will need $1.2 trillion through 2023 to repair the economic damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Friday. About $345 billion in financing has not yet been pledged, Georgieva said in a speech, while commitments from official lenders and international institutions cover less than a quarter of the [...]
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Saturday to a ceasefire and to begin "substantive talks" over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after nearly two weeks of fierce clashes. Bitter fighting in the Caucasus region has claimed hundreds of lives, forced thousands to flee, and stirred fears of a full-blown war that could suck in regional powers [...]
Seychelles' remote Aldabra Atoll is being used as a case study in a new reporting framework devised by international scientists to help protect World Heritage Sites from almost 300 different invasive alien species. Frauke Fleischer-Dogley, the chief executive of the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) which manages the site said, "We are delighted that Aldabra is [...]
A team of 10 members from the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) who will be observing the upcoming general elections arrived in Seychelles on Friday. The information manager of EASF, Seychellois Jules Hoareau, told SNA that "the core mandate of the mission is to support the democratic process of the country with a clear message [...]
Air Seychelles has repatriated 496 Indian nationals between July and October 2020 as part of the 'Vande Bharat Mission,' the airline said on Friday. The national carrier operated seven special flights from Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, to Ahmedabad, Chennai and Mumbai. The seventh special flight left Seychelles last Friday, October 2, [...]
Nigeria plans a record budget as the country faces possible negative growth in the third quarter and slipping back into recession, the president told lawmakers on Thursday. Africa's largest economy is being battered by the global economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic as a drop in crude oil prices deprives it of key revenues. "Revenue [...]
The United Nations Nairobi Convention has launched a new publication of guidelines aimed at supporting the sustainable management of freshwater sources in the western Indian Ocean region. Guidelines for the Assessment of Environmental Flows in the Western Indian Ocean Region aims to help communities and governments manage these water resources to sustain rivers and [...]
As many as 115 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty this year due to the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warned Wednesday. That is a devastating reversal after decades of progress, and higher than the bank previously estimated, even as recently as August, when the worst case was [...]
