France’s Macron heads to Algeria in bid to heal wounds

By SYLVIE CORBET
Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Algeria for a three-day official visit aimed at boosting future economic relations. Macron also will seek to heal colonial-era wounds 60 years after the North African country won its independence from France. The visit comes less than a year after a months-long diplomatic crisis between the two countries and as the war in Ukraine has reinforced Algeria’s status as a key partner to provide gas to the European continent. In recent years, Macron has made unprecedented steps to acknowledge torture and killings by French troops during Algeria’s 1954-62 war of independence.