French President Emmanuel Macron has referred to Haiti's leaders as morons, sparking a diplomatic row between the two nations, reports The Guardian. According to the publication, Haiti's government summoned the French ambassador to formally protest what it described as unfriendly and inappropriate remarks made by President Macron.

Macron’s remarks appear to come from a place of a highground that his country’s colonial past with Haiti ill-affords.

France says it's "very concerned" about the disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has not been heard from since he was reportedly taken into police custody upon his arrival in Algeria on Saturday.

President Macron joins calls for information about Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, missing in Algiers.

Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his immediate release and President