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Al-Araby
As Ramadan looms, some Moroccans have announced that they will boycott Algerian dates, fearing that these fruits may be radioactive due to their production close to sites in the Algerian Sahara where the French carried out nuclear detonations during the colonial era. Algeria, the third-largest producer of dates in the world, produces more than 1,000 varieties of dates, a fruit that Muslims regularly eat to break their fasting during Ramadan. In the Sahara, from Biskra to Adrar, most Algerian dates palms are situated, hundreds of kilometres away from the south-western region Reggan, where the F…