here has been an uproar in France after French-Algerian author, Hamid Ait-Taleb, who holds two master’s degrees from the Sorbonne, changed his name to “Xavier Le Clerc” over the lack of job offers due to his North African-sounding name.
mmanuel Macron's statement on French colonial history and memory in Algeria and his sharp criticism of the Algerian regime sparked a political crisis between the two countries, which are linked with more than 130 years of colonial history.
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Larbi Ben Mhidi, FLN Founding Member as portrayed in The Battle of Algiers (1966)
In February 2019, the bid for a fifth term was announced on behalf of Algeria’s former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika who was debilitated after suffering a stroke in 2013.
he ongoing protests in Algeria are regarded as reminders of the early days of the Arab revolutions in 2011, when millions poured to the streets in many countries across the Middle East.
hile it has not yet accepted that the state directly engaged in systematic torture, France has finally recognized that the French state instigated a system that led to torture during the Algerian war.
So much so that EU countries seeking to reduce their dependence on Russian natural gas see countries in Africa and the Middle East as the strongest and most realistic alternative, with Algeria, Libya, and Nigeria standing out in this respect.
South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius, Comoros, Rwanda, Ghana, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mauritania, Tunisia, and Algeria will hold elections in 2024.
A very understandable conclusion emerges from the book, which thoroughly analyzes the policies followed by countries in the region from Algeria to Iran, Iraq to Libya, and the Gulf to Turkey.
However, following this decision, several countries such as South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Namibia, Botswana, Comoros, Tunisia, Djibouti, and Mauritania announced their opposition to the decision.
Many of these profiles also deliberately incite strife among Arab peoples by referring to the political and historical differences between them, such as the differences between Morocco and Algeria, and the political problems between Iraq and Kuwait.
When there were coups in Algeria in 1992, Egypt in 2013, and Turkey in 1997 and in 2016 (a failed attempt), the governments in Germany did not side with democracy but with the coup plotters.
Therefore, not only the Sahel and West Africa but also Libya and Algeria in North Africa, where Turkey has strategic interests, have the potential to be affected by the crisis in Niger.