French President Emmanuel Macron will go to Algeria subsequent week in a bid to enhance strained ties between Paris and Algiers, the French presidency mentioned in an announcement Saturday.
“This journey will contribute to deepening the bilateral relationship trying to the longer term… to bolster Franco-Algerian cooperation within the face of regional challenges and to proceed the work of addressing the previous,” the presidency mentioned after a name between Macron and his reverse quantity Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Macron is to be in Algeria from Thursday to Saturday subsequent week.
French-Algerian ties hit a low late final 12 months after Macron reportedly questioned whether or not Algeria had existed as a nation earlier than the French invasion and accused its “political-military system” of rewriting historical past and fomenting “hatred in direction of France”.
Algeria withdrew its ambassador in response, however the two sides seem to have mended ties since.
The North African nation received its independence from France following a gruelling eight-year warfare, which ended with the signing in March 1962 of the Evian Accords.
On July 5 of the identical 12 months, days after 99.72 % voted for independence in a referendum, Algeria lastly broke free from colonial rule — however reminiscences of the 132-year occupation proceed to hang-out its ties with France.
