Relations between Algeria and its former coloniser, France, have rarely been straightforward. After hitting a low point in July when France supported Algeria’s regional rival Morocco over its ...

France ruled Algeria for more than a century, as a colony and then a part of its territory. Algeria won its independence in 1962, after a devastating war, but tensions between the two countries ...

France will expel Algerian diplomats in response to plans by Algiers to send more French officials home, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Wednesday, as relations between the countries ...

France said Tuesday it was expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials a day after Algeria announced the expulsion of the same number of French officials in escalating tensions between the two ...

Strained relations. The diplomatic spat threatens to upend recent efforts to normalise strained relations between France and its former North African colony, including a visit to Algeria by Barrot ...

The pessimism over France’s ability to effectively lobby on behalf of Sansal has led his supporters to seek help from the ...

A public prosecutor in Algeria has requested a 10-year prison sentence against French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal.

Malika Rahal, a French historian and writer of Algerian origin, exposed the lie of freedom of expression in France, revealing ...

Thousands of jars of the Algerian El Mordjene spread have been seized by French authorities as they try to stop the sale of ...

The wildly popular Nutella competitor El Mordjene has been banned by the European Union, a move some see as politically motivated.

Relations between Algeria and its former coloniser, France, have rarely been straightforward. After hitting a low point in July when France supported Algeria’s regional rival Morocco over its ...