Algeria: Independence

Record ID: 941

Title: Algeria: Independence
Date: 5th July 1962
Summary: Algiers, July 5 1962 - Algiers was at last officially independent this day, the 132nd anniversary of the French occupation of the country. After a decade of strife and bloodshed in Algeria and political turmoil which had torn France in two, the French left.
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Location: ALGERIA ALGIERS
Reuters ID: LDL00101621ZJ
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