Tunisia to Build Border Barrier With Libya to Keep Militants Out

Tunisia’s government said it will build a wall along its border with Libya to prevent the infiltration of Islamist fighters following a beach front attack that killed 38 tourists.

The wall, that will cover about a third of the 500 kilometer (310 miles) border, will be ready by the end of the year, Prime Minister Habib Essid said in a television interview Tuesday. The government has already started construction, said Essid, although he warned that protecting the border would be “difficult, very difficult.”