

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ruled out resuming normal relations with France due to what he described as “very dangerous” statements by President Emmanuel Macron.
This came in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel, published in its issue, on Friday.
“No Algerian would accept that I resumed contacts with those who hurled such insults,” the Algerian president responded when asked whether relations between Algiers and Paris will return to normal soon.
Since late September, tensions have escalated between Algeria and France over remarks made by Macron that the Algerian nation did not exist before the French colonial rule and that another colonization preceded that by his own country, sparking a storm of condemnations in Algeria.
In a bid to palliate its atrocious colonial past, Macron claimed that “there was a colonization before the French colonial rule” in Algeria, alluding to the Ottoman presence in the country between 1514 and 1830.
Algeria responded by recalling its ambassador in Paris and banning French military aircraft from using Algerian airspace on Oct. 3.
In the interview, President Tebboune said that he was “very upset” with his French counterpart “because of his” very dangerous” statements.
“The history of the peoples should not be compromised and Algerians should not be humiliated,” the Algerian president said in reference to Macron’s comments on Algeria’s history.
more recommended stories
Nigerians banned from going to fight in Ukraine
Nigeria has said it will not.
Ukraine crisis: First batch of students arrive in Ghana
Ghana has become the first African.
African students ‘badly treated at Ukraine borders’
Cold and fearful, scores of South.
Nigeria offers to evacuate its citizens from Ukraine
The government of Nigeria says it.
Mozambique government websites hacked
Hackers say thy have regained control.
African Union suspends Burkina Faso over military coup
The African Union said Monday it.
No access to public spaces for unvaccinated Rwandans – Prime Minister
Rwandan citizens and residents must be.
Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita dies aged 76
The former president of Mali Ibrahim.