Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune reportedly exchanged a phone call with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, on Saturday. The two leaders agreed to boost cooperation between their two countries during a telephone conversation.
The meeting comes 48 hours after a keynote speech by the Algerian head of state, who called for early elections and pardoned Hirak detainees. In the aftermath, journalist Khaled Drareni was also released. A gesture of appeasement addressed to the popular protest movement that will celebrate, on Monday, its second anniversary, and which had forced the former strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave power.
It should be recalled that the Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, returned to Algeria on 12 February, after several weeks of convalescence following his hospitalisation in a German specialist hospital last December after he was infected with Coronavirus.
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