It’s designed to reduce wildfire ignitions by putting rock, brick or paving around structure perimeters and removing wood fences and vegetation ... zone was based on fire-resiliency studies ...

WELL, CHANGES COULD BE COMING TO LOCAL BUILDING CODES IN YOUR AREA AS THE STATE HAS UPDATED ITS FIRE HAZARD ZONES. CAL FIRE IS ROLLING OUT NEW MAPS THIS WEEK, SHOWING THE ZONES THAT ARE UPDATED ...

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African ...

Here the leaders of Southern and East Africa have decided to work together ... This determination plus the practical route map the SADC-EAC Summit laid down needs to be applied to whole conflict ...

A research team led by Rumi Chunara—an NYU associate professor with appointments in both the Tandon School of Engineering and ...

The M23 armed group is advancing on strategic zones in the eastern DRC after taking two key cities, Goma and Bukavu, ...

Google Maps now shows the “Gulf of America” in ... changed the name today of the body of water spanning between the eastern coast of Mexico and Florida. Google says it follows the GNIS ...

INTERPOL and AFRIPOL conducted an international counter-terrorism operation in East Africa on Monday. The operation resulted in the arrest of 37 suspects and the seizure of small arms and heavy ...

South Africa’s defence minister Angie Motshekga has confirmed ... “We don’t want a balkanisation of eastern DRC,” he said at a press conference on Sunday on the sidelines of the AU summit. Reporting ...

The South East Zone of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rose from a meeting at the Government House, Enugu, with a resolution approving the zoning of national and zonal offices allocated to the ...

Snow will fall across the North East this weekend, with anyone heading out urged to take extra care in the icy conditions of the February freeze. The latest weather maps from the Met Office show ...

Mount Kilimanjaro, standing at 5,895 meters, offers climbers a unique journey through five distinct climate zones, ranging ...