Algerians decry lack of government support as wildfires rage

At least 69 people, including 28 military personnel, lost their lives in Algeria this week due to devastating wildfires.

Tizi Ouzou, Algeria – With bloodshot eyes and hoarse voices, young volunteers buzz around a line of shops along Krim Belkacem Boulevard in their fluorescent vests. Most of them have not slept in days. The commercial street in Tizi Ouzou, in the northeastern Kabylie region of Algeria, is the main drop-off point for the hundreds of trucks delivering humanitarian aid to wildfire victims from all four corners of the country, and the reception and distribution of supplies have continued uninterrupted. Tizi Ouzou has been the central focus of humanitarian aid efforts as it is the province hardest hit by days of merciless forest fires which have ravaged Algeria.