Algerian officials had argued strongly against reopening the trauma of the “Black Decade ... blamed for the disappearance of thousands of people who were later presumed dead, rights groups ...

Algeria was the only French colony in Africa occupied by a white settler population. Known as the pieds noires they numbered nearly a million. They took the most fertile 23 per cent of the country ...

Algeria was the only French colony in Africa occupied by a white settler population. Known as the pieds noires they numbered nearly a million. They took the most fertile 23 per cent of the country ...