The election campaign has been met with indifference as Algerians grapple with a pandemic-hit economy.
The president’s sweeping changes to bureaucratic institutions ahead of the 2022 presidential election aim to ensure that seats of power are filled with those in line with his vision.
Rabat did not comment on Monday’s incident in which three Algerian truck drivers were killed on border between Mauritania and Western Sahara, with Algiers warning “barbaric strike” would “not go unpunished”.
Algeria is Spain's largest gas supplier, covering almost half of its gas demand through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline.
Amid rising tensions with France, Algerian ministries instruct staff to use Arabic language in officials correspondence.
The 'commemoration' of the 1961 Paris Massacre showed that the French president still harbours a colonial mindset.
The emergence of new worthy competitive actors has opened space for North African countries to relinquish Paris and leverage new partners.
Human rights groups and Algerian associations in France called on authorities to further recognise the French state's responsibilities in the 1961 massacre of Algerians and to further open up archives.
Nearly 4,000 worshippers protesting mosque’s conversion into church were massacred by French colonial forces in the mid 19th century.
While France’s silence on its colonial role in Algeria may work domestically, the future of European and North African relations is closely impacted by Paris’s silence.
Algerian President Tebboune has spoken publicly for the first time about the row with France, demanding "total respect" from the former colonial power.
"They need to free themselves of certain behaviours, which are intrinsically linked to the incoherent logic driven by the West's claimed mission to bring civilisation," says Algerian FM Ramtane Lamamra.
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