Between France and Algeria, the list of “irritants” continues to grow

The affair of Tiktokers who call for violence from France on social networks, and which Algeria refuses to resume on its territory, promises to constitute a new file of dispute between the two countries. What are these “irritants of the bilateral relationship”, from memory to the economy, on which Paris and Algiers cannot find common ground?

Western Sahara

This is the main difference between Paris and Algiers since Emmanuel Macron, at the end of July, aligned France with the Moroccan solution of an autonomy plan for Western Sahara. Although, on the sidelines of the G7 summit a month earlier, he tried to warn his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the latter not having understood or not hearing, the diplomatic crisis immediately exploded. The fate of this former Spanish colony has for decades pitted Morocco, which controls 80% of the territory, against the Sahrawi separatists of the Polisario Front, supported by Algiers…