Riots in drought-stricken central Algeria over months of water shortages

According to reporting by the Associated Press violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households.

They took place in Tiaret — a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 located 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Algiers — protestors wearing balaclavas set tires aflame and set up make-shift barricades blocking roads to protest their water being rationed, according to pictures and videos circulating on social media.

=At a council of ministers meeting last week, President Abdelmajid Tebboune asked his cabinet to implement “emergency measures” in Tiaret.