France’s inside minister visits Algeria amid hopes of thawing relations

French Inside Minister Laurent Nunez visited Algeria on Monday in what might sign a thaw in relations between the 2 international locations. Below his predecessor, Bruno Retailleau, France tightened entry circumstances for Algerian diplomats and threatened retaliation if Algeria refused to take again its residents ordered to depart French territory. Ties worsened additional after France recognised Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, a area on the coronary heart of a decades-long dispute.