The Elysee Palace announced on Friday that President Emmanuel Macron will sign on Saturday with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune a "renewed partnership" agreement.

The French presidency said that Macron will return "to Algiers from Oran to sign with President Tebboune a joint declaration for a renewed, tangible and ambitious partnership."

Earlier Friday, Macron called on Algerian and African youth to avoid being "dragged" behind the "massive manipulation" behind networks run "in secret" by forces that portray France as an "enemy" of their countries.

On the second day of his visit to Algeria, Macron added, "I simply want to say to African youth: Explain the problem to me and do not get carried away because your future does not lie in anti-France." This came in response to a question from journalists about "disappointment with France" in a number of African countries.

"Yes, France is criticized. It is criticized for the past... because we have let misunderstandings take root for a long time, and also because there is massive manipulation."

"Let's be clear, many activists of political Islam have an enemy: France; many networks that are clandestinely stirred up by Turkey, Russia and China have an enemy: France," the French president added, denouncing the "neo-colonial and imperialist plans of influence" of those countries.

Emmanuel Macron made a similar speech during a visit at the end of July to three African countries, including Cameroon, where he strongly denounced Russia's "hybrid presence" in Africa, which "passes through disinformation and militias," which is "a source of concern first and foremost for the African continent." 

In Algeria, he called for "strengthening partnership" in combating the terrorist threat in the Sahel region, stressing that this includes, in particular, "avoiding the spread of mercenaries in the region, especially the private Russian Wagner (group) mercenaries operating in Mali, which the French army has just left."