Security : Creation of checkpoints in the Eastern Borders, activation of the Joint Security Committee

Tunisian authorities officially informed their Algerian counterpart, considering that the region which separates the two countries from the Tunisian side is a military buffer zone, as it was agreed between the two sides to activate the role of the Joint Security Committee for the exchange of information in the field of counter-terrorism between Tunisia and Algeria.

In practice, the process faces large difficulties, especially from the Tunisian side due to the vastness of the boundary between the two countries, and which is estimated at 900 kilometres between Algeria and Tunisia, including mountainous and forested areas in the north that are difficult to control and monitor compared to the desert areas in the south of Tunisia like Kabli,Tozer, Medenine and Gabes.

From the Algerian side, armed forces deployed more than 6,000 additional soldiers, and created several control points and standing towers, along the borders, particularly in the triangle of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, to thwart any smuggling operations of arms that are brought from the African Sahel region, where the terrorist organization “al-Qaeda in the Sahel Region” was stationed.

Intensified field presence of troops was supported with daily exploratory tours by military helicopters, and the use of Border Guards at the borders to monitor many points of contact between the two countries, as the Tunisian special plan of isolation can only succeed with the help and the intervention of the Algerian side, whether with exchanging daily information rapidly and periodically through the security committee that hold periodic meetings in the border Wilayas of the two countries, not to mention the rapid exchange of information through encrypted messages.