Hi IanJ,
for a moment I wondered what 'unfriendly locals' you meant, then I realised it was the jihadist threat (ironically, far from locals) which moved out of the Sahara into the Sahel years ago and whose hotspots are well known: northern Burkina, central-north Mali and northwestern Niger.
All those places are easily avoided. One Italian pushbiker who deliberately entered the risky area near Timbuktu a few years ago and disappeared was recently found to be a hostage.
Yes, occasionally abductions and worse have happened south of there, so overlanders now play it safe and stick to the Gulf of Guinea coast from Ivory Coast or even Guinea east to Nigeria and down the west side: Cam > [Gabon] > Congo Brazza > DRC > Angola.
Any Med ferry from Alex stopped years ago and was a PITA at the best of times.
So simply ferry from Sinai to Jordan, then Israel and freight ferry (you fly) out to Greece.
Or you can dodge Egypt and go Sudan-Saudi, Jordan, Is etc... I think that's what Flipflop's links refer to.
Despite what you may read, your borders east or west side will be made immeasurebly easier with a CDP.
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