He joined the country’s fight for independence in the 1950s and helped lead it out of a brutal civil war in the 1990s. He was ousted in 2019 after 20 years in office,
Tag: Algeria
America’s Afghan War: A Defeat Foretold?
Recent history suggests that it is foolish for Western powers to fight wars in other people’s lands and that the U.S. intervention was almost certainly doomed from the start.
Sicily May Have Broken Europe’s All-Time Heat Record
A monitoring station in Sicily reached nearly 120 degrees Fahrenheit. And at least five children were missing as flash floods swept through northern Turkey.
Wildfires in Algeria Kill More Than 60 People
More than two dozen soldiers who were fighting the fires are among the dead.
Algerian Soldiers Die Fighting Wildfires, President Says
At least 25 soldiers were killed saving residents from wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of the capital, he said. The civilian death toll from the blazes rose to at least 17.
He Is Senegalese and French, With Nothing to Reconcile
David Diop, an International Booker Prize finalist for his novel “At Night All Blood Is Black,” is among the writers whose work is helping France face its history with Africa.
Lifting Veil on Algeria War Trauma, France Eases Access to Archives
Historians say there are still impediments to their research on the Algerian War, which remains sensitive in France, and point to the resealing of tens of thousands of once-public documents last year.
In Reconciliation Act, Macron Acknowledges Truth of Algerian Lawyer’s Death
The president admitted that Ali Boumendjel did not die by suicide, as France had previously claimed, but was killed by French troops during the Algerian war of independence.
Report Aims at ‘Reconciling’ France and Algeria, Its Former Colony
A government-commissioned study offers proposals to address longstanding grievances. But it does not recommend an official apology and skirts the issue of systemic torture by French troops.
Hopes Fade for New Political Course in Algeria a Year After Popular Uprising
“We are moving backward fast,” said a leading figure in protests last year that ousted the country’s authoritarian ruler.