The killing of French hostage Herve Gourdel in Algeria has highlighted the relationship between France and its former colony, who share a rocky past and are no strangers to Islamic extremism. Algeria already fought a bloody civil war in the 1990s which killed tens of thousands of people. But is a common enemy enough to coordinate their efforts in battling Islamic terrorism? Lisa Bryant reports.
- Place Discussed
- Algeria
- Published in
- Algeria
- Rights URI
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Source
- Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2051904/data_euscreenXL_1701683
