Frontiers in North Africa

2.7 Algeria's borders

Algeria's borders with Libya have been discussed above and those with Morocco and the Western Sahara will be dealt with below. In this section, therefore, only the borders with Tunisia, Mauritania, Mali and Niger will be discussed. All of these states except Tunisia represent entities which, in their present form, are the result of colonial administrative delimitations - between the Algerian Territories du Sud (TDS) and the AEF for the eastern section of the Niger border from the modern Algeria-Niger-Libyan tripoint to the old Sarra triangle Sudan-Libya-Chad tripoint, and between the TDS and the AOF for the remainder of the Niger-Algeria border and those with Mauritania and Mali (Morsy 1984; 309).