MOROCCO PLACES PROVINCES ON HIGHEST ALERT AS WILDFIRE SPREADS. (PHOTO).
Morocco places provinces on highest alert as wildfire spreads Morocco has placed nine provinces at the highest wildfire alert level as blazes continued to intensify over the past week, with satellite data showing that more than 4,100 hectares (10,131 acres) have burned since the start of the year. Data from the European Commission-backed Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) showed that about 855 hectares (2,112 acres) burned over the past week, marking an increase from the previous week, Anadolu Agency reported. The system also detected 1,006 thermal anomalies across Morocco between Jan. 1 and Aug. 2, including 59 over the past week. Thermal anomalies are satellite-detected hotspots and do not necessarily represent separate wildfires, as the same fire may be detected more than once. On Friday, Morocco’s National Agency for Water and Forests issued red-level wildfire warnings for nine provinces in the country’s north and east, indicating an extreme risk of forest fires. Offici...
Kaduna state welcomes 2,500 corps members for the 2015 Batch B orientation course.This was made known today tuesday at a news conference in Kaduna by the state's NYSC Coordinator Mr Mohamed Momoh.He said the orientation would begin tomorrow the 28th of October 2015,and he added that with the security situation in the North East,corps members posted to Gombe state would make use of the orientation camp in Kaduna state before redeploying them to their state of posting.He noted that ''Redeployment will only be on marital and health issues''.One more photo below.
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