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Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum attends a meeting with foreign Ministers and officials from countries neighboring Libya to discuss the conflict in Libya, in Algiers, Algeria January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina Algiers - Boualem Goumrassa
Algeria has renewed its demand for France to compensate for the nuclear tests it conducted in its vast desert before and after independence. The case is considered among the unresolved crimes committed by colonialism, and it is one of the most sensitive issues between both countries.
Marking the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the first French nuclear explosion in the Algerian desert, on Feb. 13, 1960, Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum said in a statement on Twitter that the impacts of the tests as “catastrophic.”