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Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya form the United Arab Maghréb and the countries will soon be joined together by something more physical than their name. Work is currently underway to construct a 3200km three-lane highway between the four countries and forms the largest ever African road building project and is currently also the world's largest...

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Published 15/05/2009