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Report and pics from southern Libya

Reuters: Two Serbian embassy staff members were abducted in Sabratha, Libya

Two Serbian embassy staff seized in Libyan 'ambush' | Reuters

Libya's Quiet War: The Tuareg Of South Libya [Video link]

https://news.vice.com/video/libyas-q...of-south-libya

Libya's Quiet War: The Tuareg Of South Libya

In remote southwest Sahara, the indigenous Tuareg tribe — variously used and discriminated against by former strongman Muammar Qaddafi — fight for their place in a post-revolutionary Libya.
Living deep in Libya's desert near large oil fields and lucrative smuggling routes, hundreds of miles from Libya's capital, the Tuareg find themselves impoverished and isolated on this prized land.
Nowhere is this felt more than in the oasis town of Ubari. Here the Tuareg are pitted against former neighbors in a proxy battle for assets and power, backed by government and international interests.
VICE News travels to meet the Tuareg on the front lines of Ubari and the border town of Ghat, to find out what is really happening in this rarely visited land.

Algeria preparing for foreign intervention along the 1232 kms border with Libya
Alerte rouge à la frontière algéro-libyenne - Actualité - El Watan

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Linky : 3 foreign workers kidnapped in southwestern Libya - World - CBC News

"The abduction of the engineers was carried out by a small outlawed group,"

Ghat is just across Djanet, in Algeria

http://i.cbc.ca/1.3769243.1474310957...ghat-libya.jpg

Just read where these three guys were released unharmed in a CBC news report

Question about security issue

Hi fellow riders...i am planning a summer trip from Italy to Tunisia and then pass to Libya.
I would like to ask if its safe enough to pass Libya for Egypt or better by pass it.

Thank you a lot!

I have not heard of any independent travellers crossing Libya since 2014. After that it became too dangerous. For the moment tourism is finished and there isn't even a unified state called 'Libya' anymore.

https://sahara-overland.com/libya-2/

Traversing Northern Libya (Tunisia -> Egypt)

I've been researching on to traverse Libya with the hope that in late 2017 things might be better than they were last year.

So far, 2016 was 8 times deadlier than 2017.

Although the year is not over yet, it seems things have improved.

Has anyone on this forum had any real-life experience with crossing Northern Libya in 2017?

I'd like to take a bus (or some other ground transport) across Northern Libya. :scooter:

When I asked one expert about it, he wrote the email below....

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Thank you for your email and welcome to Tidwa Travel

Let me start with safety Libya nowadays is not really safe to travel everywhere but still Tripoli and Liptes Magna is safe to visit for few days some of our guests made safe last week and they really enjoyed it .

Regarding the visa
In the present time tourist visas are not available for Libya! We are able to provide you with the required invitation letter for your business visa (Single-entry for one month) which is the only way to visit Libya in the present time. If you ere interested here is how we normally arrange the service.

Step 1:

You need to send us:

Scanned copy of your passport's bio page (the page with your photo).
Copy of your "Residence Permit" (if you are not a national of the country which you are applying).
Estimated date of arrival.
Full Payment.
Those documents will be used to secure the reference number from the Immigration Department in Tripoli for your visa approval.

Step 2:

The immigration will send the visa approval number to the embassy (in your country or country of residence). Then you need to visit the Libyan embassy to obtain the actual visa stamp.

The embassy might ask you for the following documents:

A valid passport '' at least six months when you leave Libya''.
Visa reference number (from Libya).
Bank statement.
Visa fee (Cash only).
Two recent passport photos.
Travel insurance.
Residence Permit (if you are not a national of the country in which you reside)
How Long It Takes To Get the reference number for the Visa? Usually takes around 7 working days to process.

The cost is 350 Euro per person for one single entry visa.

Full payment in advance is required. .
No refund if your visa has been in process.
50% of the amount will be refund if your application has been denied.
Please note that the price is not included the visa fee at the embassy this cost is only for the visa approval.

If you decide to go ahead with us, then please

Make sure your passport(s) does not have an Israeli stamp (or visa).
Contains at least two blank pages
Must be valid for at least six months when you leave the country.
Email us .jpg colour copies of your passport bio page(s) at least ten days before arrival.
Transfer the full amount of the visa cost.

Once you get your visa we arrange you a private trip to Tripoli and around ( where is possible by the time of arriving )

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information. Thank you one more time for your email and looking forward to hear from you.

Kind regards,
Masoud
Operation Manager
Tidwa Tourism Services
Libya Mobile: 00218-917861624
Tunisia Mobile: 00216-26276978
Skype ID : tidwa.tours
Web Site: Tidwa Travel & Tours, Visa, Hotels Trips Libya Tunisia Morocco Egypt
Tel: Tidwa Travel & Tours: Libya Tunisia Algeria & More

What Tidwa are saying is what we all know: despite the troubles, journalists and similar can get 'business visas' to visit the Tripoli area where one of the governments is based. (My impression of Tidwa has been a good one, compared to other agencies.)
So if it's just a matter of getting a Libyan stamp in your passport, that is easily done.

If, as your sig suggests, you are trying to either end your trip there, or cross Libya from one country to another, land borders may be another matter. Even journalists don't try that as things stand. I've lost track who controls the Tunisian and Egyptian borders (let alone the ones down south), but you can be sure it's not the same outfit.

I had business dealings in Libya prior to Ghaddafi's death and visited several times. Two points about this; the visa cost has skyrocketed! My Libyan business partners (predominantly from Benghazi) are still adamant that it's too dangerous to return. Many of my former Libyan acquaintances are doing business from outside the country. My main partner there is saying he'll never returned having been kidnapped and held blindfolded for 3 months, initially picked up with his two small children at their school gate!

Not an ideal situation! I'd be very, VERY cautious!

Just for you to know, talking with the Lybian embassy in Madrid two weeks ago, they Highly recommend not to go. I was trying to cross Lybia from Tunez to Egypt, but there are now 3 different goverments on the route, and the whole area is unsafe. Talking with a couple of lybian locals, they say the same thing, it's much better to avoid that cross.
Now I'm managing to get to Israel and Egypt through Sinai.