France has recalled its ambassador to Algeria and ordered 12 Algerian diplomats to leave Paris as a diplomatic row escalated.

This comes days after Algeria expelled 12 French officials after one of its consular staff was arrested over the kidnapping of a government critic living in Paris; a move that President Emmanuel Macron’s office called “unjustified”.

French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said “Algerian authorities have chosen escalation”.

The two countries have blamed each other for what Paris has called a “sudden deterioration in our bilateral relations”.

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