International Investigation Algerian war of independence: when the French army generalised the use of torture While mention of the word torture was banned from official language at the time, the ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday recognised that Larbi Ben M’hidi, a key figure in Algeria’s War of Independence ... The post Macron acknowledges Algerian independence leader was 'killed ...

Instead, he agreed to form a "truth commission" as recommended by a report commissioned by the government to shed light on France's colonial past. French forces "tortured and murdered" Algerian ...

Algeria has embarked on one of the most ambitious housing projects in Africa, building millions of homes for its citizens. The government has worked tirelessly to improve living conditions and urban ...

Le fondateur de l’école de commerce Digital College a financé son mariage et a acheté plus de 500 000 euros de cartes Pokémon avec l’argent de l’établissement, selon les informations ...

In a troubling turn of events, Boualem Sansal, an 80-year-old French-Algerian writer, has been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly undermining Algeria's territorial integrity. This case ...

The fixing of a remembrance day, exactly 50 years after the war ended, is symbolic ... Muslim "harkis", who fought in the French army against Algerian insurgents, oppose the idea. Hollande last month ...

They were unusually strong remarks from the Algerian leader, and a reminder of the lingering tensions with France more than 60 years after Algeria won its independence in a painful 1954-1962 war.

Sansal is well known for his anti-Islamist views and is an outspoken critic of the Algerian government. Algeria was once a ...