Both countries had closed their land borders in March 2020, in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
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It had been closed since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Algeria will reopen its land border with Tunisia in mid-July, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced on Tuesday (July 5th). “We have made a joint decision to reopen the land borders as of July 15”said the leader at Algiers airport, alongside his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied.
Both countries had closed their land borders in March 2020 to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, road traffic between the two countries has been limited to the transport of goods. The tourism sector in Tunisia has seriously suffered from this closure, Algeria being a major supplier of tourists to the neighboring country, especially in summer. Before the coronavirus pandemic, more than three million Algerians traveled to Tunisia each year, according to local media.
Air and sea links between the two countries nevertheless resumed in June 2021.