Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: Have French Algeria remain a part of Metropolitan France, while have French Guiana become independent.
Have countries be less genocide hating so the french wipe out the arabs in Algeria. French Guiana loses any use and is probably sold to Suriname or Brazil or made independent
For that to happen you would need some extreme "luck". Maybe something similar to "What Madness is This?" happens in France.
Oh and that is a TL in the pre-1900 section
Except how do they then commit the genocide necessary to make this work. Because Algeria is a hilly and hard to occupy country that could mount a resistence till the cows come home if the French attempt this.
French Guiana isn't chosen for the spaceport for an alternative location and is cut close just like Suriname in the latter half of the twentieth century. I wouldn't know how to keep Algeria French except maybe try to treat the Algerians like full citizens with rights and everything and not oppress them, sounds crazy, but it would go a long way to making the locals at least not bother for independence.
Coastal Algeria (particularly around Oran and Bone-Constantine apparently have coal in proximity to iron ore, thus are perfect candidates for industrialization and employment of both French people and Algerians. It is very important to settle the interior with French people. The Sahara is actually where French can attain a clear majority of the population, since the local Muslim population is quite low and there are vast reserves of ground water that can support cities and towns as well as substantial mineral reserves. And we are not just talking about the present day Algerian Sahara, but the entire Sahara down to the Niger River, the Atlantic Ocean and the Tibesti Mountains and Chari Basin. In that entire area, there are maybe 2 million people. Railroads are easy to build. There is iron, coal, oil, gold, uranium, copper and other minerals and in large quantities.There were three Depatments in the coastal strip and the interior was adminstrtively separate. The post is not really ASB, but this would require a committed national effort to populate the coast with French settlers and expell the Arab populace to the Saharan interior or Tunisia/Morocco. Perhaps a Surviving Second Empire would pursue this policy. Of course, the French have never been keen on voluntary immigration unless forced to, like my Huguenot ancestors.