Many Algerians were killed and others wounded, for example in the Setif uprising.

Many villages including farmlands were destroyed.

Many Europeans left Algeria including many senior administrators and managerial and technical experts leading to fall in production.

It created refugee problems. A number of Algerians (about 300,000) fled to neighbouring Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt and Libya to seek for asylum.

It paved way for dictatorship in Algeria. Ben Bella, became increasingly dictatorial by limiting the peoples' freedom of association, freedom of the press and Assembly.

The rise of the army factor in Algeria's politics. Owing to the great role they had played during the independence war, soldiers continued influencing post- independence politics in Algeria

It failed to end neo-colonialism in Algeria. Owing to financial constraints, the post -independent Algerian governments found themselves begging for economic and technical aid from their former colonial masters.

It paved way for Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria. This has led to increased acts of terrorism against Christians.

It led to economic ruin and stagnation. During the course of war, the terrorist secret Army organisation (OAS) of the French settlers destroyed schools, hospitals, telephones, offices, factories, vehicles, important files, furniture etc.

Power struggle cropped up between the guerrilla leaders who had commanded the six military districts (Wilayas) during the war of liberation.

It destabilized traditional family life in Algeria. A big number of men died in war, leaving about half a million widows in 1962 and between 250,000-300,000 orphans.

Women were forced to move without veils during war and some took to begging , prostitution and theft during and after the war.

It soured relations between Morocco and Algeria. This was due to the support Algeria gave to the POL1SARIO .

It divided pan-Africanist whereby the radical Casablanca group supported the FLN's military activities while the Monrovia group called for negotiations between the FLN and the French.

To sum up, the Algerians would not have won their independence if they had not resorted to the armed struggle. Furthermore even before gaining their own liberation, the Algerian nationalists had forced France, in an effort to avoid armed risings elsewhere, to grant political independence first to its Maghrib neighbours (in 1956) and secondly to almost all French-speaking Africa south of the Sahara (in 1958 and I960).