Algeria launches new plan to secure borders with Morocco

Algerian border guards launched a new security plan on Algerian-Moroccan borders to step up counterterrorism efforts. It is based on increasing the number of patrols and helicopters.

The new measures come after the vice-defence minister Gaid Salah paid a working visit to the second military zone of Oran, Echorouk has learnt.

Gaid Salah ordered to double counterterrorism efforts as part of a new security plan to prevent terrorists from entering Algeria.

According to the same sources, joint units of soldiers, gendarmes and border guards were formed to perform patrols. Walls were built on sensitive and important points. 

Defence minister also took security measures on southern and eastern borders to end smuggling and prevent terrorist from entering the country. Those measures are continuously modernized. A large number of smugglers were killed. Weapons, ammunition and drugs were seized.