Tunisia said on Friday that it was asking its regional authorities to work on a plan to cope with the fallout of a possible foreign military intervention in neighbouring Libya.
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There is a small town on Libya’s south-west border with Algeria that has traditionally occupied a key point on the migrant route to Europe.
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Tunisia said Wednesday it is closing its border with Libya, a hotbed of violent unrest, a day after a deadly suicide bombing claimed by the ISIL group.
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According to Tunisia’s interior ministry ISIS in Libya has been preparing training camps near Tunisia’s borders.
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The governor of Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh governorate met with Libya’s interior minister on Wednesday to discuss the final proceedings for reopening the border between the two countries, Ahram Arabic news website reported.
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Reports from Egypt that Libyan security forces have pulled out of the main border post at Musaid have been denied by an official there.
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Algeria is keen on reopening all land borders with Libya in the few coming days, Algerian Al-Khabar newspaper has reported, pointing out that the Algerian government has already begun with the technical preparations necessary for the reopening. The borders have been closed for a year and a half now for security reasons.
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Members of the municipal council in the south western border town of Ghat have met with Algerian police to discuss cross-border cooperation.
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Libya’s Tripoli-based Islamist government has called on the Tunisian authorities to coordinate with it on securing the countries’ mutual borders, Turkey’s Anadolu news agencyreported.
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Tunisia has reportedly started building a physical wall to separate it from Libya, its conflict-ridden neighbour to the east.
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