President Macron joins calls for information about Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, missing in Algiers.

France says it's "very concerned" about the disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has not been heard ...

EDITORIAL. The writer, arrested on his return to Algiers on November 16, must not become a pawn in the difficult relationship ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is "very concerned by the disappearance" of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, his ...

Kamel Daoud was awarded the Goncourt prize earlier this month for his novel Houris, a searing account of Algeria’s 1990s ...

Algeria is the historic backer of the independence movement Polisario. Macron’s move angered many Algerians, who view the award of France's Prix Goncourt to Daoud as a political rather than a li ...

Sansal is quoted as saying: “When France colonised Algeria, the entire western part of Algeria was part of Morocco: Tlemcen, Oran and even as far as Mascara. This whole region was part of the ...