Any of you guys been to the really bad African countries? Like Sudan, DRC, Somalia, Chad, CAR, etc? How bad is it actually? Could a white guy realistically visit there without severe risk?
>>2867857Insane risk, some of these are even fucking active warzones.You will needed to be escorted by someone armed and you will need a fixer to navigate all the corruption. Just go to the countries with established safe tourism. The armed guards will be discretely out of view, you'll have some semblance of freedom and you're far less likely to catch beaver fever on the first day. You're not going to be seeing the "real africa" being escorted everywhere by armed guards anyway.
>>2867857Never been, but afaik:>DRC is ok to visit around the capital>Somaliland is possible (even teaching jobs advertised there)Interior Congo afaik is doable, but it's just paypig city central, with bribes at every point.CAR is utterly lawless.The North of Sudan could be possible if the Egyptian crossing is opening, around Wadi Haifa and stuff. Chad not too sure.
My father has when he worked in oil and gas. He wasn't even allowed to leave the compound without an armed security detail.
Sudan was totally chill up until 2019, I remember following the blog of a cute German bikepacker girl who would camp by the roadside and hang out with. I’ll be keeping an eye on the situation there, it’s meant to have the world’s best coral reefs
>>2870789That would have been for insurance reasons. Which standards clearly do not reflect reality.
>>2870856It's because oil workers and other foreigners working for hated foreign corporations have been kidnapped for ransom on numerous occasions.>>2867858You could also JBB (Just Be Black).
>>2867857>DRCbeen multiple timesmostly as kraut researcher working in the east (near Lake Kivu)we actually have contact to m23 as our main base is in their controlled territorygot official papers, but every time I get stopped I show them cute images of the animals I research on and they let us go kek>How bad is it actually? Could a white guy realistically visit there without severe risk?really depends on where you want to goGenerally I would avoid terrorist areas, they'll just kill you...DRC is mostly fineas long as you speak French!!!and avoid the active conflict areasno clue about the othersthough if you feel it, I can really recommend the DRCthe Congo Basin is (imo) the most incredible place in the worldmy current travel maxim>everything at or below the equator is fineand these also tend to be the places that are the most worth to travel tono clue why you'd want to go to e.g. Chad or Somalia, just generally boring countries in every dimension
>>2867857Black neighborhoods in the US aren't even safe. You want to go to a black country?
>>2867857They’re insanely corrupt and dysfunctional places. With a guide you will probably be ok, but going alone will put you at huge risk of being kidnapped and held for ransom. White foreigners like you are very very likely to get extorted by the locals and government.
>>2875276There are plenty of African countries that are perfectly fine. OP simply listed the worst ones.
>>2867859>CAR is utterly lawlessI just looked into CAR a bit. Its truly crazy how they live there. Its so much different than life in the civilized world. I cant even imagine what life is like there. Life in europe has a lot of cons but i would never trade it for something like that. Its truly crazy how resource rich that country is but is one of the poorest in the world. The stupidity of a black man is astounding. For all those centuries they arent able to do something good for themselves as a whole group. Thinking only short term, and only in terms of violence. Its easy to blame corporations for exploiting them and i do blame them but they are also to blame for letting themselves to be exploited. If they cared about eachother and if they stopped to think for just a second they would be able to do some good for themselves. They dont seem to be able to organize themselves. They would sell their mom for a pack of cigs. They have no loyalty, no intelligence, no integrity, no skills and no ethics.Truly crazy continent
>>2875372they're landlocked and they have fuck-all for infastructureI got friends from Chad/CAR and he says its not that bad. he's black and speaks french and arabic tho.
>>2867857I watched Blood Diamond yesterday so I can tell you it's pretty bad over there
>>2875325>There are plenty of African countries that are perfectly fineExamples pls
>>2877048BotswanaNamibiaRwandaSenegal
