Algeria cancels France 24’s operating license: State media

The government alleged the outlet had shown ‘clear and repeated hostility’ towards Algeria and its institutions.

Algeria cancelled the accreditation of France 24, the communications ministry said on Sunday, a day after parliamentary elections in the former French colony. The move was due to the satellite news channel’s “clear and repeated hostility towards our country and its institutions”, the ministry and government spokesman Ammar Belhimer said in quotes carried by the state news agency APS. Belhimer also accused France 24 of failing to respect journalistic rules and ethics, saying it “practises disinformation and manipulation in addition to confirmed hostility against Algeria”.