Tanzanian authorities have mobilised more than 600 firefighters to put out a fire on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, an official said in Dar-Es-Salaam on Sunday. Nurdin Babu, the Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner, told Xinhua in a telephone interview that the firefighters have been drawn from the Tanzania Fire and Rescue Force, the Tanzania National Parks, police, […]
The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria (CoSAP) has called for an immediate investigation into the fire that gutted the Kogi Assembly Complex last week Monday in Lokoja. Mr Abubakar Sulaiman, Chairman of the CoSAPmade the call in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Abdul Bura in Bauchi. Recall that on […]
By Agency Report Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday heightened the need to develop a national veld fire management strategy. This is coming after 10 farm workers were burnt to death on Monday in a veld fire in Esigodini, Matabeleland South Province. “A new national strategy is now needed to minimise this growing menace whose […]