PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday has asked his government to tighten visa requirements on ...

Algeria has formally annulled a long-standing agreement that allowed French diplomatic and service passport holders to enter ...

France suspends a decade-old visa exemption deal for Algerian diplomats, escalating tensions over migration disputes, Western ...

Algiers on Thursday officially canceled its 2013 visa waiver agreement with France for diplomatic passport holders.

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 ...

Relations between France and Algeria have faced a new wave of tension following the French judiciary's issuance of an ...

After being re-elected in September, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced he would not travel to France, having repeatedly postponed a state visit that was first planned for May 2023.

1.5 MILLION ETHNIC ALGERIANS Roughly 1.5 million ethnic Algerians live in France, Algeria's former colonial ruler. Thousands flooded into the country in the 1990s to escape the civil war.

A woman holds an Algerian flag at a gathering in Marseille, France, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris, on October 17, 2021.AP Photo/Daniel Cole ...

And as France’s economic and political influence wanes throughout Africa, Algeria is among a longer list of countries gradually transitioning toward English as their main foreign language.

The vast majority of France’s 41 million people could no more imagine the severance of Algeria from France than if it was Provence, Bretagne, or Savoy and Nice (the latter two were annexed to ...