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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.

Niger’s military authorities have authorized the removal and transport of uranium from the SOMAÏR mine at Arlit without the involvement of longtime operator Orano, prompting the French nuclear group to denounce the shipment as illegal and in breach of a September 2025 World Bank–linked arbitration ruling. While Niamey signals plans to sell the stock on the open market as an assertion of resource sovereignty, the move raises legal, safety, and security concerns as uranium travels by road through conflict‑affected Sahel corridors.