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Instructions · What links here · Challe Line (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 30 days ago by Deceptecon (talk: D · +) · Last edited 30 days ago by Deceptecon

The Challe Line (French: La ligne Challe) was an armed defense line in French Algeria located on the border between Algeria and Tunisia^[1], doubling in 1959 the Morice Line built in July 1957. This razor barbed wire, Land mine, electric fence was constantly monitored,^[2] Its name comes from General Maurice Challe, commander-in-chief in Algeria between December 1958 and March 1960^[3]. Crossing the wilayas of El Tarf and Souk Ahras to reach the two communes of El Kouif and Negrine in the wilaya of Tébessa, the Challe line partially doubled the electrified Morice line which extended over 460 km^[4], from Annaba to Negrine via Souk Ahras and the communes of El Ma Labiodh and Bir el-Ater de Tébessa.

Several hundred thousand mines remained dosile for more than 50 years. Portions of the border between Algeria and Libya were reinforced by electrified barbed wire. Many mujahideen died trying to cross the Chall line that the people of R'mila in Algeria gave it the nickname "the death line" or "the cursed line"^[5]. Anti-personnel mines also claimed victims in the decades following the Algeria's independence.

The end of the demining operations of the line were finished many decades later and was announced fully finished in 2017.^[6]

Notes and references

↑ Chitour, Chems Eddine (2019). "Chapitre XII. Les « Justes » qui se sont engagés pour l'indépendance de l'Algérie". Hors collection (in French). Chihab Éditions: 384–402.
↑ "ISC - CFHM - IHCC". www.institut-strategie.fr. Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
↑ Villatoux, Marie-Catherine; Boillot, Pierre; Robineau, Lucien (1995). "Algérie 1959-1960 : souvenirs d'aviateurs". Revue historique des Armées. 200 (3). Persée - Portail des revues scientifiques en SHS: 83–93. doi:10.3406/rharm.1995.4480.
↑ "La France remet à l'Algérie les plans des mines posées aux frontières est et ouest". Histoire coloniale et postcoloniale (in French). 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
↑ "LA GUERRE D'ALGERIE 1954-1962". Mémorial des Deux-Sèvres. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
↑ "L'Algérie a fini le déminage des lignes Challe et Morice". Le Figaro (in French). 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2026-02-08.

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[1] Chitour, Chems Eddine (2019). "Chapitre XII. Les « Justes » qui se sont engagés pour l'indépendance de l'Algérie". Hors collection (in French). Chihab Éditions: 384–402.

[2] "ISC - CFHM - IHCC". www.institut-strategie.fr. Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2026-02-08.

[3] Villatoux, Marie-Catherine; Boillot, Pierre; Robineau, Lucien (1995). "Algérie 1959-1960 : souvenirs d'aviateurs". Revue historique des Armées. 200 (3). Persée - Portail des revues scientifiques en SHS: 83–93. doi:10.3406/rharm.1995.4480.

[4] "La France remet à l'Algérie les plans des mines posées aux frontières est et ouest". Histoire coloniale et postcoloniale (in French). 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2026-09-02.

[5] "LA GUERRE D'ALGERIE 1954-1962". Mémorial des Deux-Sèvres. Retrieved 2026-09-02.

[6] "L'Algérie a fini le déminage des lignes Challe et Morice". Le Figaro (in French). 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2026-02-08.

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