Attack at Temet
 

I've hear that an attack have occured in last December against a group of tourists (with a guide) at Temet's dunes : The car have been robbed ...
Have you some news about that ?
We are going to Air next month ....
RR.

I found this message on the Routard web site (the Routard publishes a series of travel books - they are as well-known to the French-speaking travelers as the Lonely Planet guides are to English-speaking people):

http://www.routard.com/forum_message...e_au_niger.htm

It reads: "On December 30th, we have been attacked (my wife, my 12-year old daughter and the guide) at the Temet dunes by bandits with a Kalashnikov (we found 12 bullet casings) who robbed us from our personal car, all our gear and left us with a bit of food and water. We stayed for 2 days waiting for a car to come by. So watch out."

Pierre - http://www.photobiker.com

possible more robbery's niger
 

We traveled down from In-Guezzam Arlit to Agadez on 1 - 3 januari 2007 (no problem).
In Niamey a Frenchman in a Nissan Petrol told us that tourists were being robed of two cars on the route Arlit-Agadez. This robbery took place around 23 December and the info came from the French embassy Ouagadougou.

can anybody confirm ?

Attack in Iferouane
 

hi
its going on:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08364257.htm

seems to be the same group who kidnapped the Italians in August 2006

Ursula

Hi,
now it should be obvious why Libya blocked exit at their SW border and the border crossing from Djanet to Ghat is blocked too.

Regards, Yves