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Algeria's Tebboune refuses France visit in snub to former colonial ruler

Abdelmadjid Tebboune (R) stands next to Emmanuel Macron but the Algerian President has no plans to meet his French counterpart in Paris any time soon. © AFP

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has once more postponed a visit to France and accused its former colonial ruler of “genocide”, in a sign of ever-worsening relations between Algiers and Paris.

Re-elected in September with more than 84 percent of the vote, Tebboune used his first televised interview with Algerian media to admonish France.

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