African Union issues ambiguous view on possible Niger military intervention
AU opposes countries outside Africa getting involved, but gives more nuanced position on any Ecowas military action
July 2023
Southern Europe and north Africa count heavy cost of wildfires
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Ring of fire encircles Mediterranean amid record breaking heatwave – video
‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries
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Drone footage shows mountains in Algeria scorched by wildfires – video
Holidaymakers flee deadly wildfires in Algeria as flames reach beaches – video
Algeria wildfires kill dozens of people including 10 soldiers
May 2023
France to compensate thousands more relatives of Algerian Harki fighters
April Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate crisis
March 2023
Their Algeria review – sixtysomethings separate in meditation on immigrant family life
French Algerian documentary-maker Lina Soualem interviews her grandparents about their marriage and the 1950s immigrant experience in this touching film
January 2023
Daughter of Algerian journalist arrested on Christmas Eve calls for his release
Imprisonment of Ihsane el-Kadi, a longstanding government critic, prompted outcry from human rights groups
December 2022
France and Morocco resolve visa tensions after World Cup clash
French foreign minister Catherine Colonna said the countries had returned to ‘full consular cooperation’ on visit to Rabat
November 2022
49 people sentenced to death for mob killing in Algeria
The murder in 2021 came after a man was falsely accused of lighting deadly wildfires that he had come to help fight
August 2022
At least 38 people killed as ‘tornado of fire’ rages in northern Algeria
At least 26 killed and dozens injured by forest fires in northern Algeria
June 2022
Books interview
Faïza Guène: ‘People wanted me to say: Thank you, France’
The French-Algerian author on teenage fame, the parallels between her and Zinedine Zidane, and why she admires Bernardine Evaristo
May 2022
Mariner of the Mountains review – dreamily wonderful Algerian odyssey
Karim Aïnouz’s essay on his own family history takes him from Brazil to north Africa to discover his father’s country
April 2022
‘I live on crumbs’: why older Algerians are risking the small boats to Spain
Undocumented migrant fights to claim huge Belgian scratchcard win
January 2022
Macron meets Algerian-born French citizens with one eye on election
French president seeks to address France’s colonial legacy in north Africa