Algeria finished its job.
Other african countries should start doing something maybe ...

Djanet - Tam is also less than 100km from completion according to 2023 trips reports.
More here

https://saharaoverland.files.wordpre.../05/a6bmap.jpg

We can of course still drive the old tuareg track avoiding the gendarmes :thumbup1:

I am hearing more reports that there may be no need to avoid them – ie: unescorted travellers able to explore the south.
Either they are getting slack or the rule is being loosened on the quiet.
Both seem unlikely as little in it for DZ.

And regarding the TSH Algiers Lagos superhighway.
I just looked again at Bing and it appears there is tarmac going NW to < 100km of Assamaka.

https://saharaoverland.files.wordpre...5/tshniger.png

I wonder how security might improve with the tarmac.
The robberies on that route was a major reason car dealers started preferring the longer route over Morocco coming from Europe.
Last time I was in Agadez 2014 I had three options to go north - wait perhaps a week for a convoy. Pay for an escort $$$.
Or, sneak out before daylight and take my chances (they suggested 50/50 chance of making it).

I suspect the bandits may have moved on to pastures new.
The bigger issue here has become trafficking migrants into Alg, even if there's now a berm along the border from Point Zero where migrants get dumped back pretty fast these days.

Update August: following the coup, Wagner may soon be invited in to sort things out - or capitalise on what they started
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66436797