French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez’s visit to Algiers and the agreement it produced signal a tentative reset in Franco-Algerian ties, pointing to a transitional phase aimed at containing a crisis that has lingered since the summer of 2024.

France plans to amend the 1968 Algeria migration agreement, potentially ending long-standing privileges and affecting hundreds of thousands of residents.

After decades of deadlock, the United States brought together Morocco, Algeria, and the Polisario Front in Madrid for unprecedented talks aimed at advancing Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara.

The Trump administration is pushing to resolve the Western Sahara conflict through Morocco’s autonomy plan, amid tentative Algerian engagement and Polisario insistence on a referendum.

A wave of anger swept Tunisian politicians and human rights advocates after Algeria’s president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and his government handed opposition MP and lawyer Seifeddine Makhlouf over to the regime of President Kais Saied.