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Algeria
Tebboune's Paris trip faces further delays as tiff with army chief continues

Algeria's president Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Lisbon on 23 May 2023. © Carlos Costa/AFP

Abdelmadjid Tebboune's visit to France, which had already been pushed back to June, is set to be postponed again. Scheduling problems are supposedly to blame but, behind the scenes, tensions between the Algerian president and his army chief Saïd Chengriha could also be playing a role. [...]

Published on 12.06.2023 at 04:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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