Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune Has Called English: "An International Language One Must Learn To Conduct Business Across The World".

The Former French Colony of Algeria has announced it will be moving language classes from French to English, in a historic moment for the deeply French speaking nation in North Africa.

Algeria was part of France from 1830 to 1962, following a war of independence marred like many others during the mid-20th century by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union.

With communist rule being instituted in the former Department of France under the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

The current President of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, gave the decree that: "French is a spoil of war, a relic from Imperialism ended long ago.

English is an international language one must learn to conduct business across the world, as the United States and other NATO countries all speak English in varying capacities".

The move has been faced with criticism from the French speaking population, who've pointed out The British Empire imported the English language in their colonial Empire which spanned from North America to Asia between 1639 and 1997.

The country's Education Minister has been sacked, after boycotting the vote to institute compulsory learning of English in schools across the country.

The movement to establish English as a common tongue in Algeria came in the 1990s, when the then EEC announced it would become the European Union.

Over 14s in Algeria have the ability to learn English, though it wasn't compulsory until now.