Wildfire in Africa: Natural Disaster

[MLSIDRIS]

Wildlife ravages northern Algeria, killing 73 and injuring hundreds. Dozens of wildfire have reportedly swept across Northern Algeria.  The fire have destroyed a large area of forest and has affected a significant number of animals,  almost 80% of the forest was lost. Natural disasters are not common in Africa such as wildfire. It occurrence in Algeria should tell Africa leaders to prepare ahead . Africa is not immune to tornadoes, hurricane and wat have you.

[Karl_3000]

When Europe was very hot this year which probably caused the wide fire that happened in Spain and France, sub-sahara African countries were green already at the time with heavy rain fall. If the rain has not went north enough in sub-sahara part at the time, it has reached upper part by this time which is August already. Probably enough rain has not gotten to white African countries, but which are although not tropical rain forest, but more of desserts.

The wide fire that is happening in Algeria now, no evidence that it occured naturally.

[JeromeTash]

Never heard of any wild fires in Africa in the news before. I have seen those in South America, the US and parts of Europe, but not Africa? This is surprising. If indeed it was a natural phenomenon, then something unusual is happening with our climate

Africa is not immune to tornadoes, hurricane and wat have you.

Ever since I started watching live news for years, I have then heard of a hurricane or tornado hitting any of the African countries. if it did, I must have missed it. Can you point out once instance where such a thing happened before?

[Franklyn-wood]

Wildlife ravages northern Algeria, killing 73 and injuring hundreds. Dozens of wildfire have reportedly swept across Northern Algeria.  The fire have destroyed a large area of forest and has affected a significant number of animals,  almost 80% of the forest was lost. Natural disasters are not common in Africa such as wildfire. It occurrence in Algeria should tell Africa leaders to prepare ahead . Africa is not immune to tornadoes, hurricane and wat have you.

Seeing the thread makes me feel that this things many of the African countries where only hearing with their hears have now start happening right  away. This would creat fear in the mind of most African people and must be taking care off before it will become consistently happen.
I don't really know if this is true and accurate, but it's better for the Africans to come together to prepare for it before it will strike and damage things.

[Vod]

Ever since I started watching live news for years, I have then heard of a hurricane or tornado hitting any of the African countries. if it did, I must have missed it. Can you point out once instance where such a thing happened before?

You've never heard of a hurricane striking because it has a different name - cyclone or typhoon.

Notable Tropical Cyclones That Struck Africa:

Cyclone Idai (March 2019)
Cyclone Kenneth (April 2019)
Cyclone Gati (November 2020)
Cyclone Freddy (February–March 2023)

[EluguHcman]

Never heard of any wild fires in Africa in the news before. I have seen those in South America, the US and parts of Europe, but not Africa? This is surprising. If indeed it was a natural phenomenon, then something unusual is happening with our climate

My thoughts too.  And I was thinking why OP did not include source of the information in the post.
It is also no more news about Australia, USA and Canada being prone to this nature of wildfire disasters, although some part of African countries had got similar experiences of the wildfire but are usually notable to be caused by human aided activities whereas, the fire intentionally set on the dry vegetations erupts and escalates turning to the disasterous hazards.

I have not really heard about lightening being the cause of the disaster in the known African sides that had experienced this wildfire. I am neither not saying it is impossible of the natural causes to happen. Natural occurrence can be unpredictable but mysterious too.