Jean-Michel Aphatie, a veteran reporter and broadcaster, insisted that while he would not be returning to RTL he wholly stood by his comments made on the radio station in late February equating atrocities committed by France in Algeria with those of Nazi Germany in occupied France.

Tens of thousands of Algerians are living in France without legal permission. But the Algiers government is refusing to take back even dangerous criminals. The dispute threatens to upend a historic migration pact.

Relations between France and Algeria have hit a new low with Algiers blaming the rise of the French far right for a more combative approach from Paris towards its former colony. Relations soured further in November when Algeria arrested French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on national security charges after he told a French far-right media outlet that Morocco's territory was truncated in favour of Algeria during French colonial rule.

France used chemical weapons”  banned by the 1925 Geneva Protocol in its war against Algeria from 1954 to 1959, making France, which was the first of the 135 countries to sign the convention against such weapons,

France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who are deported by the French authorities.

Algeria has issued a warning to France regarding the upcoming joint military drills with Morocco, scheduled for September near the Algerian border.

Some experts argue that France's growing war of words with its former colony stems partly from the government's desire to appease the far right on migration.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou announced on Wednesday that Paris would be reexamining the 1968 migration pact that has historically made it easier for Algerians to settle in France. This

French Prime Minister François Bayrou announced his government was giving Algiers four to six weeks to accept to repatriate a list of people expelled from France.

Editorial - In the 8 o'clock news on Monday 3 March 2025, France 2 (a station of the French national public television broadcaster France TV) aired a report entitled "Algiers wants to silence its opponents.

PARIS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who ...

France Threatens to Review Algeria Migration Pact in Row Over Deportations PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian ...