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The North Africa wildfires started on 24 July 2023 primarily in Algeria with at least 97 blazes, killing at least 34 (with 10 soldiers), injuring 26, mobilising 7,500 firefighters and 350 firetrucks with aerial support, [1][2][3] forcing thousands of evacuations primarily in El Taref Province with blazes also reported in Tunisia and Morocco. [4 ...
The 2023 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. Below is an ongoing list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2023. Africa
Map. The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire[2] or Cape Town fire[3][4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. The damage to sites in the Table Mountain area ...
15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) Ignition. Cause. suspected arson. On 15 August 2023, a forest fire broke out on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands of Spain. The fire, driven by the wind, heat, and low humidity levels, caused mass evacuations, widespread damage to the island's flora and fauna, [1] as well as power and water supply cuts ...
Starting on 30 January 2023, a series of wildfires began in the South American country of Chile. By early February, the fires had developed into a large outbreak of at least 406 individual fires, several dozen of which were classified as "red alert fires". The fires burned more than 430,000 hectares (1,100,000 acres) and resulted in the loss of ...
Footage shows deadly fire raging at Johannesburg multi-storey building. Johannesburg: An unequal city with widespread housing crisis. 06:00, Namita Singh. Johannesburg remains one of the world’s ...
2023 Johannesburg building fire. On 31 August 2023 at around 01:30 SAST, a fire engulfed an illegally occupied government-owned building in Johannesburg, South Africa; 77 people were killed and 88 others were injured. [1][2][3] It was one of the deadliest fires in South African history. [4]
2023 Plateau State massacres. Categories: 2023 disasters in Africa. 2023 fires. 2020s fires in Africa. Fires in Africa by year. Hidden category: Category series navigation year and decade.