Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo warned Wednesday that bush fires, deliberately set for agricultural or hunting purposes, were devastating the natural habitats. Full text...

Muanza- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican First Lady Maria da Luz Guebuza, has urged community leaders to identify those behind the bush fires that have destroyed forests and wildlife in the country's central province of Sofala. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Indiscriminate bush fires have killed at least two people, destroyed a number of homes and now threaten cashew harvest in northern Mozambican province of Nampula, national news agency, AIM reported Monday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Fire fighters were on Thursday battling yet another Western Cape major blaze, this one burning out of control in farmland south east of Wolseley near the South African port city of Cape Town. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Massive mountain fires, fanned by a strong south-westerly, wind were still burning Tuesday in the Boland region north of Cape Town, where they have caused massive damage. Full text...

Mulanje- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi has lost more than 600 hectares of pristine forests to bush fires that have been raging for one month in the Mulanje Mountain, some 100-km south of Blantyre, an environmentalist said Friday. Full text...

Praia- Cape-Verde (PANA) -- Wild fires have destroyed 60% out of 500 hectares of forests in the Monte Velha area, Mosteiros district, in the Cape Verdean island of Fogo over the past few days. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana loses about 24 million US dollars annually as a result of bush fires, according to Lands and Forestry Minister Dominic Fobih. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Bush fires believed to have been started by poachers have destroyed about half of the 3,770 square kilometres of the Gorongosa National Park, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, reports Monday's issue of the Maputo daily paper "Noticias". Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria and Tunisia have been holding joint exercises on extinguishing forest fires along their border in the Tunisian region of Tabarka, the civil defence unit of Tarf prefecture, about 600 km east of Algiers, disclosed here Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- More than 300 firefighters and volunteers have been fighting raging mountain fires threatening multi-million dollar houses in the popular Cape Town suburb of Camps Bay. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Fire has been raging for the past three days inside Kenya's world famous Menengai crater, creating panic and fear among residents of Nakuru town, the Rift-Valley provincial capital. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- An estimated 200 hectares of forests were destroyed in Algeria last Saturday following an outbreak of fires caused by a heat-wave, reports the Algerian news agency. Full text...