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Spotlight | Algeria
Hollande already seeks strong contacts

Confident he will wrest the French presidency from Nicolas Sarkozy on May 6, Socialist Party candidate François Hollande hasn't waited for the run-off ballot to establish his first "operational" contacts in Algiers. In fact, a clutch of his party's dignitaries [...]

Published on 03/05/2012 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Ambassador Driencourt set to leave his post amid diplomatic tensions

Much appreciated by Algiers during the era of former president Bouteflika, it's time for French ambassador Xavier Driencourt to move on. As he readies to leave in the next few months, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has gone on the offensive against Paris in a calculated populist move.

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Commemoration and contracts for Hollande

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Spotlight | Morocco
Benmoussa to revive Paris-Rabat ties

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First Sellal-Raffarin encounter

French businessmen are waiting impatiently to see whether Algeria's new prime minister, Abdelmalek Sella, and Jean-Pierre Raffarin, will hit it [...]

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Spotlight | Algeria
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Many are wondering whether an improvement in Franco-Algerian relations that François Hollande appears to be seeking will survive the everyday realities of his presidency. Despite the new French government's real affinities with Algiers (MC 1015), there are a lot of [.

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Morocco M'jid El Guerrab sees himself as Macron MP

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | Algeria
Hollande already seeks strong contacts

Algeria
Ambassador Driencourt set to leave his post amid diplomatic tensions

Morocco, Tunisia
Karim Ben Cheikh guides Benoit Hamon in the Maghreb

Morocco
M'jid El Guerrab sees himself as Macron MP

Algeria, France
Algeria tops Paris's autumn agenda

Algeria
Fabius due in May to smooth over accord with Rabat

Algeria
Taubira to shortly meet with Charfi

Algeria
Local businessman on Hollande trip

Spotlight | Algeria
Commemoration and contracts for Hollande

Spotlight | Morocco
Benmoussa to revive Paris-Rabat ties

Morocco
Mohamed VI appoints an ambassador to France, at last

Algeria
First Sellal-Raffarin encounter

Spotlight | Algeria
Friendship with Hollande put to test

Algeria, France
Francois Hollande

Spotlight | Algeria
Chill with Paris helps Washington

Algeria
Raffarin may run into closed doors

Spotlight | Algeria
Gueant draws blank on 1968 accord

Algeria, France
Noel Mamere

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Elizabeth Guigou