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LETTER FROM MAGHREB. The region’s economic growth is hampered by the total ban on travel between Algeria and Morocco as well as by the closure of Tunisia to travellers.
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By Benoit Delmas
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“Rnothing to declare? This question, we are not likely to hear it on the western and eastern flanks of Algerian territory. For good reason: the borders are closed. It is with countries as with certain hovels: shutters and doors hermetically closed. Algeria has tightened the border locks with Tunisia for two years, padlocked its border with Morocco since the 1990s. In the country of the military-political “system”, we do not do half measures. The conflict with the Cherifian kingdom, dating from Hassan II, over Western Sahara, continues to escalate at the cost of new retaliation. To that, terrestrial are added those of the sky, of the chancelleries (break of the diplomatic relations), of the venomous declarations towards one and the other (Algiers taxing Morocco of State…
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