Devastating floods provoke popular fury
Embittered residents of the capital Algiers shouted anti-government slogans and booed President Bouteflika as he toured the Bab el-Ouad district on 12 November, two days after the working-class neighbourhood was devastated by flash floods. Official figures put the total death toll at 750, with the majority of fatalities in the capital, but independent reports expect the final count to exceed 1,000. As many as 24,000 people are understood to have been made homeless.
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