An emergency meeting for the Algerian government
Algeria, Politics, 11/12/2001

Algerian prime minister Ali Bin Fles has summoned his government for an emergency meeting on Sunday after the floods invading the country resulted in killing 300 persons and displacing almost 5500 families.

The Algerian government is due to draw an emergency plan to mobilize the central government and the local government in an attempt to ensure shelter, food and relief items for the victims of the floods and maintaining the damaged roads and utilities On the other hand, the Algerian minister of the Interior Nour eddine Yazid Zarhouni urged the international community to provide urgent aids, noting that his country is facing a national catastrophe following the heavy rainfall and the storms blew on the country last Friday and Saturday.

Worthy mentioning that rains invaded the roads, uprooted trees and downed electricity cables as well as resulted in destroying several houses and displacing many Algerians.

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