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...
According to Congo's interior minister who said today thursday that Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso has won a new five year term with more than 60 percent of the vote.The Interior Minister Raymond Zephyrin Mboulou said on state television early today thursday morning that oppostion leaders Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas won 15 percent support in Sundays vote,while retired general Jean-Marie Mokoko won 14 percent.In an interview with Radio France Internationale,Mokoko called for an independent commission to review the tallies from individual polling stations.Residents said Brazzaville and the economic capital Pointe Noire,an opposition stronghold,were quiet but tense on thursday as opposition supporters waited for their candidates to publish their results.Police and soldiers continued to patrol the streets,but the government today thursday lifted a blackout on internet and mobile phone use that it said was meant to prevent unofficial results circulating and causing unrest although.At least 18 people were killed by security forces in protests ahead of a referendum in October that removed term and age limits that would have prevented the 72 year old Sassou Nguesso from running again.One more photo below. 
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