Frits,
Soleb is a small village with no shops, you would find some fresh produce there corresponding to the time of the year, but nothing else. Bear in mind that the road from there goes far inland in the desert, away from all settlements, so you would not be able to get anything along the way. However there is much traffic along the road (trucks & buses) so there is no risk in the sense of being in the middle of nowhere should something go wrong. However it is a pretty long stretch a good 250km from Soleb to Abu Simbel, there is practically nothing in-between. Argeen is just a border post, nothing more (on GE I see a few stalls on the Sudanese side, but I doubt that much is available there).
There is one issue however. Since gold was found in the north western desert, a huge mining support town sprang up near Toshka (not to be confused with the similarly named place in Egypt) about 30 kilometres north of Soleb. It is a pretty rough place, it was the only place in Sudan where I ever felt uncomfortable (we uplifted some fuel there), and looking at my Sudanese companion, I was not alone. It is not the place to walk past all alone...
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