in reference to the 132-year-old colonial era, the memory of which is still a great source of tension. For historian Benjamin Stora, a leading specialist in French colonisation and the Algerian ...

Boualem Sansal was arrested after he said France gave too much land to Algeria and too little to Morocco during the colonial ...

Algeria's parliament has established a commission to draft a law criminalising French colonial rule (1830-1962), a move deemed "historical" amid escalating diplomatic tensions between the two ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years in prison for undermining Algeria's territorial ...

A Gabonese squadron halts to salute a French colonel at one of France's last military bases in Africa which is now "shared" with the host nation and focused on training.

French Quarter property owners can now apply for free replacements of historic Spanish tile street signs, thanks to a ...

An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose case has been at the heart of a diplomatic storm, to five years behind bars, an AFP journalist inside the courtroom ...

An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city ...

Junta-run Mali, which has broken off ties with former ruler France, on Tuesday said it was quitting an international group of ...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said that French counterpart Emmanuel Macron is the "only point of reference" for ...

The junta-run country quit the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, an international group of French-speaking ...