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Algeria Calls for Resuming Negotiations between Morocco, Polisario

UN special envoy for the Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura arrived in Algiers on Monday and held talks with Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Macron visits the 'birthplace of Rai' in Oran as reconciliation visit to Algeria comes to an end

French President Emmanuel Macron was swamped by crowds of young people outside the Disco Maghreb music store this Saturday, as his three-day visit to Algeria drew to a close.

Radio France Internationale

Macron continues Algeria charm offensive to smooth difficult ties

French President Emmanuel Macron, on a relations-building trip to Algeria, on Friday paid his respects at the mixed Christian-Jewish St Eugene cemetery in the capital Algiers.

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Macron announces 'renewed partnership' during Algeria visit

French President Emmanuel Macron will extend his visit to Algeria to sign a "renewed partnership" deal on Saturday with his counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune as the two seek to overcome months of tensions.

France 24

France's Macron Announces 'New Page' in Algeria Ties

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a "new page" in ties with Algeria on Thursday, the first day of a three-day visit aimed at mending ties with the former French colony months after it marked 60 years of independence. Macron's office said his visit aims to "lay a foundation to rebuild…

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France’s Macron seeks ties with Algeria beyond ‘painful’ history

Ties with Algiers have become more important for Europe because of increasing demand for gas amid the war in Ukraine.

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France's Macron visits Algeria in bid to mend ties

French President Emmanuel Macron has kicked off a three-day visit to Algeria with economic ties on the agenda, as well as a bid to reset often tense relations between Paris and Algiers. Also in this edition: Angola's ruling party edges closer to an election win after the tightest presidential race…

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France’s Macron Heads to Algeria in Bid to Heal Wounds

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Algeria on Thursday for a three-day official visit aimed at addressing two major challenges: boosting future economic relations and healing colonial-era wounds. The visit comes less than a year after a monthslong diplomatic crisis between the two countries stirred up tensions 60 years after…

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On Algeria visit, Macron says 'painful' shared past 'prevents us from looking to the future'

On his second visit to Algeria as head of state, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday reiterated a commitment to building a better bilateral future, announcing a joint committee to study the colonial period and saying a "painful common past (...) has at times prevented us from looking to the…

France 24

Macron heads to Algeria with energy, post-colonial relations topping agenda

French President Emmanuel Macron travels to Algeria on Thursday seeking to soothe festering diplomatic tensions with an increasingly important supplier of gas to Europe in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.

Radio France Internationale

Macron Visit Aimed at Mending Ties with Algeria

French President Emmanuel Macron heads to Algeria on Thursday seeking to soothe festering diplomatic tensions with an increasingly important supplier of gas to Europe.

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Five years after last visit, Macron returns to Algeria in bid to reset ties

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Algeria next week in a bid to improve strained ties between Paris and Algiers, 60 years after the country won its independence from France.

France 24

Wildfires across Algeria kill at least 37 people

The North African country has repeatedly been accused of failing to invest in much-needed firefighting technology.

Al Jazeera

Algerian Judiciary Jails Two Ex-Ministers on Corruption Charges

A court in Algiers sentenced on Wednesday two former ministers to jail on corruption charges. Sidi M'hamed Court of Algiers sentenced former Minister of Finance Mohamed Loukal to six years in prison and a fine in Algerian dinar and ordered lifting seizure on all his seized assets upon the examining…

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Algeria Reduces Security Cooperation with Spain to Minimum

Algeria has decided to reduce its security cooperation with Spain to the minimum, in an attempt to ramp up pressure on Madrid over its stance on the Western Sahara. Tensions are simmering between Algiers and Madrid over recent Spanish comments on Western Sahara as Spain has shifted closer to Morocco's…

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Algeria Arrests Former Tunisian Intelligence Chief, Hands Him over to Tunisia

Algeria arrested former Tunisian intelligence chief Lazhar Longo and handed him over to Tunisia after he turned up in the neighboring country, a Tunisian security official told Reuters on Thursday. He was reportedly arrested while trying to illegally cross the border between the two countries. Observers believe his arrest is…

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Renovate the Casbah: Efforts Speed Up to Restore Historic Algiers District

A UNESCO-listed rabbit warren of 16th-century battlements and Ottoman palaces, the Casbah of the Algerian capital is falling into disrepair, but efforts to save it have been accelerating. The densely populated district, about a kilometer (just under a mile) across, perches above the Bay of Algiers and has been the…

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Algeria to Reopen Land border with Tunisia

Algeria said Tuesday it would reopen its land border with Tunisia later this month, more than two years after it was shut at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. "We have taken the joint decision to reopen the land border from July 15," said President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. He was speaking…

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Algeria’s war for independence: 60 years on

Algerians remember the struggle to gain their freedom from French colonialism – and the example it sets for today.

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Algeria's colonial past still haunts 60 years after independence

Algeria marks 60 years of independence from France on 5 July, but competing narratives over atrocities committed during more than a century of colonial rule still trigger bitter diplomatic tensions between Paris and Algiers.

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Spain Begins Natural Gas Exports to Morocco

Natural gas has started flowing from Spain towards Morocco through a pipeline that stopped flowing in November amid a diplomatic row between Morocco and Algeria, data from Spanish gas grid operator Enagas showed on Wednesday. Algeria decided last year not to extend a deal to export gas through a pipeline…

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Algerian Sources: Mending Ties with Morocco Not Possible at Arab Summit

Political sources in Algeria ruled out the possibility of reconciliation between Algeria and Morocco during the upcoming Arab Summit in Algiers. Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra discussed with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit the preparations for the summit that is scheduled for November. Recent media reports had spoken of…

Reuters

Venezuela, Algeria to begin direct flights, presidents say

Direct flights between Algiers and Caracas will begin in the coming months, Algeria President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said on Thursday, during a visit by his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro.

Al Jazeera

Algeria plays balancing act as Europe tries cut Russian gas

Algeria could help some nations switch off from Russian gas but the geopolitical backdrop is complex, say analysts.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Algeria Suspends Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Spain

Algeria has suspended its 20-year-old treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation with Spain, state media reported on Wednesday. No reason was given for the decision, which was taken by Algeria's top security council. But tensions are simmering between Algiers and Madrid over recent Spanish comments on Western Sahara as…

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