Niger to Libya - possible
I've heard this from onelife-adventures.co.uk. I mentioned it a few months ago. It seems to have worked.
"... our idea to carry a number
plate making machine (basiclly a roller press, acrylic plates, reflective
plastic backing and adhesive clear protective fronts) and a pack of Arabic
numbers and letters as transfers (letraset??) has worked well. Three
vehicles (one a 9-ton truck) successfully passed from south to north at the
Toummo crossing Libya - said to be shut in that direction! they rested up
in the Toummo Mountains and are now heading for Tajarhi, Al Wigh and the
Idhan Murzuq - lucky beggars. The brief note we got was that it was as we
thought: the border guys have no way of making plates although they
can issue the number plate numbers (given to them by Tripoli HQ). The
official status is that you still can't enter from the south but the reality
is they allow tourists over for hard dollars, $85 for each number plate and
$15 as a backhander - not what we like to do but it got them over...."
Chris S
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