A burnt forest in Algeria's city of el-Kala on August 17, 2022. Since the beginning of August, almost 150 blazes have destroyed hundreds of hectares (acres) of forest in Algeria. PHOTO | AFP
Wildfires that killed at least 38 people and left a trail of destruction in northeastern Algeria this week have now been contained, a civil defence official told AFP on Friday. "All of the fires have been completely brought under control," said fire brigade Colonel Farouk Achour, of the civil defence department.
Since the beginning of August, almost 150 blazes have destroyed hundreds of hectares (acres) of forest in Africa's largest country. Algeria's forests have become the scene of hard-to-control annual summer fires as climate change exacerbates a long-running drought.
