By Houda Mzioudet,
Tunis, 11 December 2015:
The Tunisian authorities have reopened the Ras Jedir and Wazen-Dehiba border crossings with Libya as of . . .[restrict]midnight last night. They had closed them for 15 days following the suicide bomb attack on 24 November in the centre of Tunis that claimed the lives of 12 presidential guards.
The first people to enter Tunisia were Libyans seeking said to be heading form medical treatment in Tunisia. Going the other way were Tunisian traders looking to restart their business operations.
Despite the reopening, security measures at the border crossings and along the 650-kilometre frontier have been beefed up. There is now much tighter security inside the Tunisia military buffer zone along the border with Libya, according to local Tunisian Radio Tataouine. Further security measures at the Ras Jedir crossing include three additional mobile scanner machines.
Air passengers to and from Libya, however, still have to use Sfax airport rather than Tunis until at least 31 December. [/restrict]
