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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Algeria's 60 Years of Complex Relations with Former Occupier France

Europeans opposed to the Algerian policy of General de Gaulle violently confront security forces in Algiers on December 10, 1960 - AFP

In the 60 years since Algeria won independence from France, it has gone through multiple crises with its former occupier, often fueled by domestic politics.

Yet the two sides had surprisingly good relations for the first four decades, and it was only in the 1990s that things started to fall apart, experts say.

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