The Joint Commission of Algerian and French historians responsible for the work of remembrance on French colonisation and the Algerian War held its first official meeting on Wednesday 22 November in Constantine.
It was agreed that "2 million digital documents on the colonial period, 29 rolls and 13 registers, making up 5 metres of the remaining archives relating to the Ottoman period, i.e. before 1830" would be handed over to Algeria.