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Riots erupted in an Algerian desert city this weekend after months of water scarcity left taps dry and forced inhabitants to queue for water for their homes.
Protesters wearing balaclavas set tires on fire and set up makeshift barricades blocking roads in Tiaret, a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 people located 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Algiers, to protest water rationing.
The unrest followed demands from President bdelmajid Tebboune to rectify the suffering.
At a council of ministers meeting last week, he implored his cabinet to implement “emergency measures” in Tiaret.