For Algerian Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Emmanuel Macron's visit was "excellent and successful".

The Algerian and French presidents signed a joint declaration on Saturday August 27 in Algiers calling for a "new irreversible dynamic" in bilateral relations, sixty years after the end of the Algerian war.

The two leaders then said a few words to the press.

President Tebboune welcomed a visit which "allowed a rapprochement which would not have been possible without the very personality of President Macron".

As of Friday, Emmanuel Macron had evoked the "renewed partnership" between the two countries, presenting it in particular as a "new partnership for and by youth".

He had already announced the acceptance of 8,000 more Algerian students this year in France, who will join an annual contingent of 30,000 young people.

Visit to Oran

Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron visited a Christian shrine and the Rai temple in Oran on the last day of his visit to Algeria.

The procession of the Head of State climbed to Fort Santa Cruz on the heights of Oran (west), discovering a view overlooking the bay of Algeria's second city, bathed by the Mediterranean.

The adjoining chapel, a very popular place of pilgrimage during French colonization (1830-1962), remains a place of meditation and walk for Algerians.

Emmanuel Macron then joined the small shop of the Disco Maghreb label, emblematic of raï, a very popular musical trend in the 1980s, brought up to date by the latest track by DJ Snake.

In shirt sleeves and a glass of tea in hand, he chatted with the boss of the label, Boualem Benhaoua, 68, who told him that "new talents would soon be recorded in a seaside studio".

On leaving, he was delighted that Oran and Disco Maghreb are "still the epicenter of raï, of popular culture, of immense artists", before enjoying an impromptu walkabout.

French President Emmanuel Macron, alongside Boualem Benhaoua, the boss of the raï label Disco Maghreb, during his visit to Oran, August 27, 2022. © Ludovic Marin, AFP

The atmosphere was hectic and the walkabout was cut short, police preventing the curious from approaching the French president.

On images released by the Elysée, we see people smiling at him with a "hello" or brandishing a phone for a selfie.

With AFP 

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