Algeria counts costs after deadly wildfires

Bejaia, Algeria (AFP) July 27, 2023

Algerians in the fire-ravaged northeast were Thursday counting the cost of the blazes that killed 34 people, destroyed homes and reduced vast forest areas to scorched wastelands. The wildfires raged for days, mainly through the mountain forests of the Kabylia region on the Mediterranean coast, fanned by winds during blistering summer heat. "Many people are traumatised. Our aim is to prov