With Niger and Algeria you never know. You may just show up (if you have the visa arranged beforehand) and ask for a guide, or wait for another party you can join and only pay your share. But things can get complicated, borders or desert areas can be closed, rules can change. Niger is unstable. You may have to pay for a convoy and if you get robbed it can become gruesome...
Famous Walker turned back at the border. Kobus was robbed. We were denied visa for Niger in Tam and had to go through the Malian desert. http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...a-jusqua-42600
There's need for a plan b and also money in the bank if things go badly.
A guide/escort may be compulsory and he may help you avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in the case of a robbery or kidnap attempt there is not much he can do. This has been debated here on the forum before.
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