Information is an
informed but personal interpretation (not necessarily
approved
by the
countries concerned) and believed to be correct at
the date shown above.
Wherever possible
use official border crossings, marked with the black
diamond
or expect the consequences outlined below.
Black diamonds shown
regularly used desert border crossings. Many other border
crosing exists or are used but are closed to non-Africans
or tourists without good connections. Blueish
lines show the three
main trans-Sahara routes. Red lines show
borders which cannot be crossed legitimately
(some may be mined and you may be arrested or run into
bandits/smugglers/rebels). Green
border lines can, up to a
point be crossed as long as you check into the nearest
immigration point. Some pass through outlaw areas and
you still may get arrested or robbed, etc. As you can
see it is principally southern Algeria and northern
Mali - not a place where many go.
