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Morroccan firefighters battle infernos. Fires ravaging remote mountain forests in the northern region of the Kingdom have killed at least one person, authorities said Friday. The corpse was found amid one of the blazes in the Larache region. In the north of Morocco, fires which are fanned by strong winds have forced more than 1,000 families to evacuate. Raging blazes broke out on Wednesday and have already destroyed one thousand six hundred hectares of woodland in the provinces of Larache, Ouezzane, Taza and Tetouan. Hundreds of personnel from the civil protection service and water and forest department, as well as…

Two bridges were blown up by armed groups in Burkina Faso on Friday night by suspected Jihadists in the West African nation. The fighters blew up two crucial bridges raising fears that they intend to isolate the Sahel region. The attackers destroyed the Woussé bridge, forcing a convoy that was supposed to supply the town of Djibo to return to Kongoussi. They also blew up again the Naré bridge, further disrupting transport in the area. The bridge was attacked for the first time on June 30, but work was carried out to allow people to continue using the road before…

South Africa’s power distributor ESKOM has assured that the frequent power cuts will come to an end by the end of the week as more generators have started operating. While meeting President Cyril Ramaphosa at Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga province, Eskom head said that by the end of July the risk would be significantly diminished once unit 2 of the Koeberg nuclear power station comes back onto the grid, which “is about 920 MW, easing the power outage in the country. This month, the country has endured almost two weeks of stage-6 load shedding, which entails multiple power cuts…

Several groups of Chadian rebel and political parties on Saturday withdrew from talks with the African nation’s military government, accusing it of seeking to destabilize peace efforts. The move, by about half the groups in the talks, came less than 24 hours after President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno’s administration announced that a national peace dialogue intended to pave the way for elections would start on August 20. In a statement, the rebel groups taking part in Qatar mediated talks in Doha accused the government delegation of “harassment, intimidation, threats and disinformation”. The new date had been set without any consultation,…

Banku, Fufu, Ampesie, Konkonte, Eto, Akyeke and Koko are among many staple foods in Ghana and Africa. These foods require a lot of preparation time, including the time spent traveling to the market. According to a World Bank estimate, 7.6 percent of the total population of Ghana, about 1.7 million people, reside abroad. Estimates from Ghana Missions abroad showed that Ghanaian migrants reside in more than 53 countries worldwide. This population lacks access to traditional meals due to cultural differences. “Banku mix, one of the flagship products. I took all the troubles of the market and all those things and…

Four Teacher Unions have walked out of an ongoing negotiation meeting with the government over their demand for Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) on Tuesday July 12, 2022. According to the Unions, the posture from the government side is betrayal of trust which has informed their decision to walk out of the meeting. “All it means is that the government side is not ready to continue with negotiation unless the teacher unions call off the strike. “We have held all Organized Labour hostage and this is a betrayal of trust. Because the understanding we had is that Organized Labour is…

Ghanaian Highlife legend, Alfred Benjamin Crentsil, professionally known as AB Crentsil has passed away at the age of 79 years. The death of the celebrated singer was reported by the sound engineer, Fred Kyei Mensah better known as Fredyma and later confirmed by Starrfm sources. The singer’s death happened on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The “FAREWELL AB CRENSTIL. The original composer and singer of the famous and controversial songs, ‘Moses and Atia, AB Crenstil, has died! He had a stint with a lot of bands before joining the Sweet Talks Band with Smart kansah and then his own band, Ahenfo.…

A middle-aged wood worker Yaw Fosu has been shot by suspected robbers at his home at Community 25 in Tema Wednesday dawn. The carpenter is currently battling for his life at the Tema General Hospital. According to wife and daughter who spoke to Starrfm Wednesday morning, the attack happened around 2:30am. “My father is battling for his life as I speak to you. They came pushing down our gate at dawn. When we were unable to push back anymore because they had threatened to shoot, my father stepped out then they shot him immediately on the forehead. “He fell on…

The prosecution requested on Friday life imprisonment for the former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta, tried in Paris for the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, estimating that he had constituted “an essential cog without which the murderous machine could not have been implemented”. This former senior civil servant “failed in his duty” to protect the Tutsis of his prefecture when he “had the means to act”, said the representatives of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat), calling for his conviction as the “principal author” of the “crime of crimes”. Laurent Bucyibaruta, prefect of Gikongoro between 1992 and July 1994, has been…

Two bar shootings, one in a township close to Johannesburg and another in eastern South Africa, left 19 dead, police said on Sunday. In Soweto, 15 people were killed as they enjoyed a night out, police said when assailants drew up in a minibus taxi and began randomly firing at bar patrons. In the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg, police-reported four people were killed and eight wounded during a shootout in a bar after two men fired indiscriminately at customers. Police sources said it was too early to say if the assaults were in some way connected but observed their similarity.…