ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed at least 37 people and wounded 161 others, the civil protection department of the North African country said Thursday.
More than 10% of a UNESCO-listed biosphere reserve has been destroyed by fires that tore through northeastern Algeria, killing at least 38 people, an expert told AFP on Saturday.The figure cited by Rafik Baba Ahmed, former director of the El Kala Biosphere Reserve, means that the burned area of the park alone is almost double…
Algiers, Algeria - More than 10% of a UNESCO-listed biosphere reserve has been destroyed by fires that tore through northeastern Algeria, killing at lea
Wildfires which killed at least 38 people across northern Algeria have been largely contained, firefighters said Friday, but new blazes forced further evacuations and the closure of some roads near the Tunisian border.Fierce fires have become an annual fixture in Algeria's parched forests where climate change is exacerbating a long-running drought."We are currently fighting 11 fires," the civil defence's Colonel Boualem Boughlef told an evening news broadcast.He said more than 1,000 families had been evacuated since Wednesday.