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Children fill up cans with water at a drinking fountain in Boufarik, 30kms far from Algiers. (AFP file photo)

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

  • The region, located on a semi-arid high desert plateau increasingly plagued by extreme heat, gets its water from three dammed reservoirs that are shrinking as temperatures spike and less rain falls
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