French interior minister likely to visit Algeria as relations thaw |
By Alessandro Parodi
(Reuters) -French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Thursday there was a high chance he would visit Algeria, hailing the north African country's release of writer Boualem Sansal as a glimmer of hope that relations between the two nations could be mended.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Wednesday pardoned the French-Algerian writer who was arrested a year ago and sentenced in March to five years in jail for undermining national unity. The case strained already difficult........