Algeria was torn by an armed conflict between the government and several Islamist militant groups between 1992 and 2002, commonly referred to as the “Black Decade”. Almost 200,000 people were ...

The move followed expulsions of French officials by Algeria after an Algerian official was accused of kidnapping an ...

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 ...

The novel recounts Algeria’s “Black Decade” of civil war between 1992 and 2002, which killed up to 200,000 people. Aube, the protagonist, is narrating the story to her unborn child—silently, as an ...