Residents of Babar, Khenchela, Algeria demonstrate to demand improvement of sanitation and drinking water infrastructure. The demonstrations include blocking roads with burning tires.
A long series of protests in July 2017 are reported associated with cuts in the distribution of drinking water. Buses are reportedly damaged by residents; citizens blockade a road; security forces and protesters are injured in confrontations.
Citizens protesting against water cuts shut down the local government, including the city hall, for serveral days in two cities in northern Algeria.
Islamic State fighters claim responsibility for bombs placed in a road that denoates, damaging a water truck and a tank in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt.
Citizens of Grarem Gouga, Mila, Algeria block a road with barricades to demand more water supply, in protest of only receiving water every 15 days.
At least 70 people have been killed in the past few months in clashes between farmers and herders over access to water resources and land in the southern part of Darfur.
Daesh militants are suspected of two attacks to workers of the Great Man-made River, a large water supply project that transports water from the Sahara desert to communities and agricultural fields in northern Libya. During the first attack four technicians from the Al-Hassouna plant are kidnapped, but later released. During the second attack two workers are killed and two guards are kidnapped.
A woman was killed in a dispute over the price of water in El Gedaref, Sudan. This violent clash triggers more fighting between familial groups, leading to at least eight more deaths and dozens of injuries.
The water supply serving Tripoli, Libya’s capital city, is cut off by gunmen that force employees managing the system to turn off the flow of water. The war is between Libya’s National Army and UN-backed forces and has been ongoing since 2014.
Heavy shelling and airstrikes between April and June of 2019 destroy water infrastructure in Tripoli, Libya.