A fire on 24 October at Argui, in Dirkou commune, affected 173 households comprising 981 people, according to the civil-protection assessment published on 2 November. The assessment, completed on 28 October, records 1,197 date palms and 185 vegetable gardens destroyed.
Those losses damage both food production and household income. Bilma’s prefect visited on 27 October with administrative, security and humanitarian representatives and personally contributed 200,000 CFA francs. The published account gives no timetable or funding commitment for replacing the destroyed productive assets.