Transnational Issues Algeria

Disputes - international:

Libya claims about 32,000 sq km in a dormant dispute still

reflected on its maps in southeastern Algeria; armed bandits based

in Mali attack southern Algerian towns; border with Morocco remains

closed over mutual claims of harboring militants, arms smuggling;

Algeria supports the exiled Sahrawi Polisario Front and rejects

Moroccan administration of Western Sahara

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