Good luck.

Please don't create a situation where others have to risk their lives to get you out of trouble you could/should have avoided.

Safe travels, Sam.

Thanks, Sam. I have Kidnapping and Ransom insurance for the last 3 years.

There seems a "piste" going from Ounianga Kebir, Chad to the north and reaching Kufra, Libya. If anyone has driven it, let me know....

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Traveling nonstop to all 54 African countries 2013-2018

Your insurance is not going to help you if you are taken - the guys in the helicopters putting their lives on the line to come and get you will.

Don't take your risks with their lives.

Sam is right to discourage but helicopter rescue? Great in the movies, not such a great success rate for Saharan abductees:
French helicopters comb Mali skies | News24
Two French journalists abducted, killed in northern Mali | Reuters

I think these days plain old robbery and perhaps a shallow grave is more likely in southern Libya, especially if you have a tasty, well-equipped jeep.

Although it was and maybe still is a regular route for the gros porteur trucks, I know of only one or two Saharan tourists who drove north Chad – Kurfa - and that was in the good decades. Even then, southbound was easier, iirc.
Basing your route by interpreting a news report [source] that may have been written by a reporter who's never been to Libya, is winging it a bit. Just because one group were enemies of long-dead Ghadafi won't necessarily make them your pals today. I don't suppose AQIM or Ghadafi ever saw eye to eye either.
Could be wrong but it's hard to think that insurance, even for K&R, would be valid in southern Libya any more than Iraq.

Last I heard the Tubu in Kufra were still at it with whatever faction happens to be their enemy on the day - maybe even rival Tubu? And from Kufra you go where, if not Egypt?

It's going to get costly either way. If you don't get a carnet or pay the alternative in Egypt, I'd simply cross Chad (escort required in west Sudan) into Cameron and then Nigeria (but carnet also required to get visa, last I heard).

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Hi Chris,

Can't believe you kyboshed my annual melodramatic post!

Safe travels!

Sam.


PS just come back from a trip to the Sudanese desert - recommended!