{"id":949413,"date":"2026-05-10T00:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949413\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:55:17","slug":"algeria-and-france-agree-to-more-cooperation-after-diplomatic-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949413\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria and France agree to more cooperation after diplomatic spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Algeria and France agree to more cooperation after diplomatic spat<br \/>\n    \/node\/2642972\/middle-east<\/p>\n<p>\n                      Updated 09 May 2026 23:14                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                        May 09, 2026 23:11                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                        Algeria and France agree to more cooperation after diplomatic spat\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4710746-330383114.jpg\" alt=\"Algeria and France agree to more cooperation after diplomatic spat\" title=\"Algeria and France agree to more cooperation after diplomatic spat\"\/>                    <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The diplomatic spat between Paris and Algiers began in 2024 when France declared its support for a Moroccan plan to grant autonomy to the disputed territory of Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n                        Updated 09 May 2026 23:14                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                            AFP                         <\/p>\n<p>\n                            May 09, 2026 23:11                        <\/p>\n<p>\n\tALGIERS, Algeria: France and Algeria set aside a two-year diplomatic falling-out to agree to intensified cooperation on domestic security and defence in a meeting Saturday between Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune and French armed forces minister Alice Rufo.<br \/>As part of Rufo&#8217;s visit, France&#8217;s ambassador to the North African country and former French colony, Stephane Romatet, returned to his post after being recalled about a year ago at the height of the dispute.<br \/>Following her two-hour meeting with the Algerian leader, Rufo said it had provided an opportunity to discuss &#8220;security and defence cooperation&#8221;.<br \/>Tebboune and Rufo also discussed ways to &#8220;intensify&#8221; their cooperation on migration issues, as well as &#8220;judicial cooperation&#8221;, particularly in the area of drug trafficking.<br \/>The diplomatic spat between Paris and Algiers began in 2024 when France declared its support for a Moroccan plan to grant autonomy to the disputed territory of Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty.<br \/>Algeria is the main foreign backer of the Polisario Front, which seeks independence for the former Spanish colony, which Morocco controls and claims as an integral part of its kingdom.<br \/>The row then escalated over a number of other issues including the detention of Boualem Sansal, a Franco-Algerian writer.<br \/>After the meeting, Rufo also said that French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes would receive a first consular visit since being detained on terror charges a year ago.<br \/>Gleizes was sentenced to seven years in prison last December, and on Tuesday his family said he had withdrawn his appeal in the hopes of receiving a presidential pardon.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Algeria and France agree to more cooperation after diplomatic spat \/node\/2642972\/middle-east Updated 09 May 2026 23:14 May 09,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-949413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116547559656484347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}