- Title: France's Macron attends ceremony 'martyrs' in Algiers
- Date: 25th August 2022
- Summary: VARIOUS OF MACRON LAYING WREATH / BOWING HEAD AND STEPPING AWAY
- Embargoed: 8th September 2022 18:35
- Keywords: ABDELMADJID TEBBOUNE ALGERIA ALGIERS EMMANUEL MACRON FRANCE
- Location: ALGIERS REGION, ALGERIA
- City: ALGIERS REGION, ALGERIA
- Country: Algeria
- Topics: Africa,Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA002068525082022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: PLEASE NOTE: EDIT 0133-ALGERIA-MACRON/PREVIEW CONTAINS VOX POPS FROM ALGERIANS, SOUNDBITES FROM POLITICAL ANALYST, AND RELEVANT ARCHIVAL IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath on Thursday (August 25) at a memorial dedicated to Algerians who died in the country's war for independence from France.
Macron arrived in Algeria on Thursday for his first visit to the country since 2017, hoping to build trade links and turn the page on a diplomatic row tied to disputes over the legacy of France's colonial rule.
Ties with Algeria have become more important for France because the war in Ukraine has increased demand in Europe for North African gas, and because of surging migration across the Mediterranean.
However, the relationship remains scarred by the trauma of the 1954-1962 war in which Algeria won independence from France, with hundreds of thousands of Algerians killed.
That difficult history played into a diplomatic row last year when Macron was quoted as saying Algeria's leaders had rewritten the history of the independence struggle based on a hatred of France.
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