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The Trump administration has quietly widened its travel‑ban system, adding partial restrictions on nationals from Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and several other African states.

Algeria’s expanding wheat supplier list, including increased engagement with Canada, reflects a broader effort to reduce long-standing dependence on France as bilateral relations remain strained, turning food procurement into a quiet tool of economic recalibration.

The euro and the US dollar are trading at record levels on Algeria’s parallel currency market, widening the gap with official rates to more than 100%.

Testimony from Benin’s Republican Guard commander that French special forces were flown in from Abidjan during a failed coup has prompted French lawmakers to question whether the operation should have been treated as an external deployment requiring parliamentary notification and whether it exceeded the legal bounds of existing defense agreements.