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Algeria votes to declare French colonization a crime and demands restitution

ALGIERS, Algeria — Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France during its ...
Yale Environment 360

Making ghosts perceptible: Literature and post-colonial memory in Algeria

In 1830, France forcibly and violently colonized Algeria, keeping it as a territory until 1962, when the North African nation gained its independence following one of the longest and most intense ...
Courthouse News Service

Algeria passes law declaring French colonization a crime

The fruit and vegetable market at the Bastille market in the old city of Oran, Algeria, on November 5, 2025. (Billel Bensalem / APP NurPhoto via AFP) ALGIERS, Algeria (AFP) — Algeria’s Parliament ...
Digital Journal

Independent Algeria turns 60, but colonial-era wounds remain

Algeria won its independence following a gruelling eight-year war which ended with the signing in March 1962 of the Evian Accords. Young Algerians hang their country's national flag on buildings in ...