Tag: fire
Three dead in Lagos pipeline fire
A fire on a pipeline owned by Nigeria’s state oil company in Lagos killed three people, a Reuters witness said.
The blaze broke out...
Fire destroys SAAF Museum hangar
An unexplained fire at the weekend in 8 Hangar at Air Force Base (AFB) Swartkop, home to the SA Air Force (SAAF) Museum, was...
Fire rages through Nigerian peoples’ camp for displaced
A fire killed at least eight people and left 15,000 others without shelter after raging through a north-east Nigerian camp for people displaced by...
Fire at Cairo station
A fire at the main train station in Egypt’s capital Cairo caused deaths and injuries, a security source and local media said.
Photographs on social...
Voting machines for DR Congo election go up in flames
A fire overnight at a warehouse in Kinshasa destroyed thousands of voting machines and ballot boxes due to be used in the December 23...
School fire in Uganda claims nine lives
Nine students died after fire engulfed a dormitory at a secondary school in southern Uganda, police said, one of the deadliest in...
Mali mortar attack claimed by Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda's franchise in the Sahara claimed a multiple mortar attack on a village in northern Mali during Sunday's election that disrupted...
Fire shrinks storage capacity at Libyan oil ports
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said storage capacity at Ras Lanuf port was cut by 400,000 barrels after a second crude oil...
Ivory Coast telecoms possibly a criminal act
A fire last month that gutted a French telecoms group Orange facility in Ivory Coast, disrupting service for weeks, appears to have...
Children die in Guinea election related fire
At least five children died in a fire in Guinea blamed on post-election riots in a town in the centre of the...
Check before you speak, Minister!
South African Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula needs to verify her facts before she speaks, or risk further embarrassment to the South...
