The Public Utilities Corporation of Seychelles is raising concerns over the implications that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on its four major national projects. The four projects – the raising of the La Gogue Dam, the reinforcement of the 33KV underground and overhead networks, the refurbishment of the Praslin Power station, and the deployment of [...]
Fifty more crew members of the Spanish fleet fishing tuna in the Seychelles' waters have tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total to 59, the Department of Health said Friday. The Department said it has taken samples from 198 seafarers and has obtained 146 results. Tests are being conducted on 52 others; those results will [...]
Thousands of Burundians on Friday lined the road to the capital Gitega as the body of former president Pierre Nkurunziza was escorted under heavy security for a state funeral after his sudden death earlier this month. Nkurunziza, who ruled the country for 15 years, died at the aged 55 of what the government said was [...]
Global action is required to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse economic impacts, especially on the more vulnerable countries, President Danny Faure told Commonwealth leaders in a virtual meeting this week. Faure chaired the first Commonwealth COVID-19 virtual leaders meeting convened by the Commonwealth Secretariat to discuss common challenges, exchange ideas and solutions, [...]
Nine new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Seychelles, President Danny Faure said Thursday during a live press conference. Faure effectively announced six new cases one day after the health authority confirmed three cases among newly arrived sailors, bringing the total to nine. The cases occurred among the 205 seafarers from western African countries [...]
DR Congo on Thursday officially declared an end to an Ebola epidemic that broke out in the east of the troubled country two years ago and went on to claim over 2,000 lives. The outbreak was "the longest, most complex and deadliest" in the 60-year history of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Minister Eteni [...]
Six more crew members of a Spanish fishing fleet operating in the waters of Seychelles have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to nine, the Department of Health said on Thursday. The announcement from the health department came after Jude Gedeon, the Public Health Commissioner had announced two new cases earlier in a press [...]
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina on Wednesday unveiled prototypes of a new brand of locally-made cars and motorbikes which are expected to hit the roads in three years. GasyCar is the second brand of automobiles manufactured in the Indian Ocean island nation after Karenjy, which was launched by the government in 1984. "We will sell in [...]
Seychelles has received a loan of $10 million from the African Development Bank (ADB) to support the government's COVID-19 response programme. The loan, approved on Monday in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, will be used for macroeconomic stabilisation, strengthening the national health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as safeguarding livelihoods and social safety nets. With [...]
More than 78,000 people were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the US and in Brazil alone Wednesday, as the IMF laid out the unprecedented economic devastation caused by the global pandemic and the WHO warned the number of infections could reach 10 million worldwide within the next week. As many countries emerged from lockdown hoping to [...]
