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Tunis decides to add 40 km to the fence which it started to erect along its common boarders with Libya.

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Tunis, 12. 07.2015(Lana) Tunisia decided to add 40 km to the length of the fence it is going to erected along its borders with Libya. Tunisian Minister of Defense, Farahat Al-Harshani explain yesterday according to the Tunisian news agency that the extension would be after Dahiba to become 220 km long starting from Ras Jadier in the first phase, to be extended later to Burj Al-Khadhra to ensure securing all the borders". " The barricade system is based on two meters deep trenches and soil fences and monitoring points taking into consideration not to encroach on private property and getting closer to the borders. He said so far 10 km barriers were implemented by the Ministry of Defense in collaboration with ministries of industries according to the source. The Tunisian minister of defense said the barrier system would curtail smuggling which is active in the area due to the desert nature of the boarders which make it easy to smugglers to smuggle commodities and arms. =Lana=