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2021 Algeria wildfires
Plumes of smoke over northern Algeria on August 11, 2021
Date(s)
June – October 2021
Location
Kabylia region, Algeria
Impacts
Deaths
90 (57 civilians and 33 soldiers)
Ignition
Cause
Unknown
Perpetrator(s)
Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie (per Algerian authorities)[1]
The 2021 Algeria wildfires were multiple wildfires that happened in the Kabylia region of Algeria since 9 August 2021, which have killed 90 people,[2] including 57 civilians and 33 soldiers. The soldiers died after being trapped in the blaze during rescue operations.[3][4][5][6]
On 9 August, many fires started up in the Kabylia region and elsewhere, and Algerian authorities sent soldiers to help citizens with the blazes and evacuations.
On 10 August, multiple fires have burned Mediterranean trees, destroying olive trees and killing cattle and chickens.
Many distant villages have very limited water. Some villagers fled, while others tried to hold back the flames themselves, using buckets, branches and rudimentary tools, due to the unavailability of firefighting aircraft.
On 12 August, president Abdelmadjid Tebboune said in a live speech on state television that "criminal hands were behind most" of the fires and that 22 people have been arrested.[7]
After 7 days following the appearance of the wildfires, Civil Protection units have successfully extinguished 41 forest fires in nine provinces in the past 24 hours,[8] and complete extinction of fires in Annaba was reported.[9]
On 17 August, all forest fires in Jijel and Sétif were extinguished.[10][11]
On 18 August, president's office said that "ultimate responsibility" for fires lay with the Islamist Rachad group and MAK, an ethnopolitical autonomy organization that aims to split the ethnic Berber region of Kabyle from the rest of Algeria, with "support and help from foreign parties, particularly Morocco and the Zionist entity", referring to Israel.[12][13][14]
The 2021 Algerian-Israeli naval incident took place during these wildfires on 27 September.[15]
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^KHALEF, Fatiha (16 August 2021). "Extinction de 41 feux de forêts dans plusieurs wilayas". www.aps.dz (in French). Archived from the original on 16 August 2021.
^Dib, Nassima (16 August 2021). "Extinction totale des incendies à d'Annaba". www.aps.dz (in French). Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
^Dib, Nassima (17 August 2021). "Extinction de tous les incendies de forêt à Jijel". www.aps.dz (in French). Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
^Dib, Nassima (17 August 2021). "Sétif: extinction totale de tous les incendies de forêts". www.aps.dz (in French). Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
^"Algeria accuses groups it links to Morocco, Israel of setting wildfires". Reuters. 18 August 2021.
^"Algeria accuses Morocco of involvement in its deadly fires, to "review" relations". Africanews. 18 August 2021.
^"Algeria blames groups it links to Morocco, Israel for wildfires". Al Jazeera. 19 August 2021.
^Akramov (2021-10-01). "Ce que l'on sait de l'incident avec un sous-marin Israélien -". MENADEFENSE (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-08.
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