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Algerian civil protection services said 15 fires were raging across eight regions on Tuesday at Skikda, Jijel, Bouira, Bejaia, Tebessa, Medea, Setif, and El Tarf.

Instead, I think back to that parcel of land in Skikda, and how it has directly nurtured my family and indirectly nurtured me, for more than a century now.

Every family trip to Skikda, without exception, is always punctuated by us visiting those who have passed on.

On the outskirts of Skikda, an agreeable Mediterranean city along Algeria's eastern seaboard, my extended family owns a plot of land that sits on a slope.

The Skikda region is a former stronghold of armed groups during the 1990s and is known for its mountainous and wooded terrain.