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French-language education loses out amid Paris-Algiers tensions

Even before the row over Western Sahara, there had been an increasing number of disagreements between Emmanuel Macron and Abdelmadjid Tebboune. One of them was over education and, as a result, the number of Algerian schools accredited by France has never taken off. [...]

Published on 06/03/2025 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Algeria
French-language education loses out amid Paris-Algiers tensions

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