France's Colonial Charts to Divide Algeria and the Role of Popular Cohesion in Thwarting It, 1956-1962.

Abstract

The issue of the Sahara is one of the episodes of the long-running struggle that the Algerian people waged during the revolution by various means against a colonial power in its time, which felt at its time about its departure, so it worked with all means and methods to separate the Algerian Sahara from its north. The Sahara represented a great bet in the French colonial policy, especially during the period of General de Gaulle, and in order to preserve it due to the energetic bounties he discovered, and the colonial authorities meticulously calculated their ambitions in the Algerian Sahara in particular, which represent part of their African ambitions. However, the persistence and determination of the liberation revolution and the political struggle of the men of the interim government of the Algerian Republic thwarted all the French maneuvers and projects to try to separate the Algerian Sahara.