In June, the residents of Tiaret, a small town in western Algeria’s interior high plateau region, decided to make their discontent known. After sustaining weeks of cuts to the town’s water supply, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of a local administrative building. The cuts were due to a lack of water in the nearby Bakhedda dam. Faced with a lack of water, some residents in Tiaret were forced to postpone the traditional slaughtering of a sheep that marks the religious holiday’s celebration. In response, angry residents temporarily blocked the road to the airport with burning tires to protest weeks of rationing in the city.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 23, 2024 12:21 UTC