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Inside Europe: France's relationship with Algeria

Lisa Bryant
March 8, 2019

The United States has backed ongoing popular protests in Algeria against a fifth term for 82-year-old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. But one country with longstanding ties with the North African country has been almost silent. That's former colonial power France, home to a sizable Algerian diaspora and a complicated relationship with Algiers. Lisa Bryant reports from Paris.

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