Tag: Algeria
the secret clauses of the Évian agreements in 1962
60 years ago, on March 18, 1962, the Évian Accords were signed in eastern France, supposed to put an end to more than seven years of Franco-Algerian conflict. The text…
“Baba Merzoug”, the canon of Franco-Algerian discord
In the list of restitutions requested by Algeria from France, 60 years after the end of the war, there is a cannon called “La Consulaire” in France and “Baba Merzoug”…
a commemoration at the Élysée with witnesses of the Algerian war
The 60th anniversary of the Évian agreements was commemorated this Saturday, March 19 in France. A reception was organized at midday at the presidential palace in Paris. Two hundred people…
Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, seated on the blanks of History
To all those who know only the silence of their story, Dorothée-Myriam Kellou dedicates her work as a journalist and independent director. Because when the file of colonial Algeria is…
The origins of Algerian literature: five questions to Hervé Sanson
Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It recounts the conditions of emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s as the country plunged into a brutal war of…
In the spotlight: the sixtieth anniversary of the true-false ceasefire in Algeria
It is today, at midday, that at the Elysee Palace, Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech that The Parisian qualifies all the more as an exercise tightrope walker “that in…
the “memorial file” must be treated in a “fair” way, according to Tebboune
This March 19 is commemorated in Algeria as the “victory day”. It corresponds to the day of the ceasefire, the day after the Evian agreements which put an end to…
60th anniversary of the Évian agreements: “The conflict is rather political”
The Évian Accords were signed 60 years ago, on March 18, 1962, officially ending the Algerian war. Sixty years later, the memory still remains a wound for all those who…
the eye of Raymond Depardon and the hand of Kamel Daoud
During the Evian Accords, on March 18, 1962, Raymond Depardon was 19 years old. During the negotiations between France and the FLN, he was one of the few photographers present…
Algeria refuses to restart its gas pipeline to Spain
It is an end of non-receipt that Algiers opposed to the American request to increase the transport of gas to Europe by reopening the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline which passes through…