Summary:

On 8 May 2026, French Ambassador Stéphane Romatet returned to Algiers, more than a year after being recalled to Paris at the height of a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Romatet arrived alongside French Deputy Armed Forces Minister Alice Rufo, who attended Algeria’s commemoration of the 8 May 1945 Setif massacre, in which French forces killed Algerian protesters.

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