I've been wishing the Sudan/S. Sudan border was an option as well. There are reports that river shipping has restarted from Kosti (Sudan) to Malakal (S. Sudan), but I don't know if this actually happened. I read of travelers making this journey in the small window between S. Sudan independence and before everything unraveled, and I hoped this might be a way for overland travelers to cross the border and avoid the worst of insecurity, but being on the barge for the border areas.

I also talked to an aid worker friend of mine and he advised no S. Sudan travel at all, or if it was going to be done do not go north of Juba. They have staff and transport routinely traveling from Kenya and Uganda to Juba and have not had incidents in these areas, not to say that they don't happen.

I inquired with a (the?) tour agency there recently to ask about an unrelated idea, but he did mention that "crossing to Sudan by road is still hard .... we do not recommend it as it will be difficult", which I read as "No way, not happening."

Mr. Mayom (mayom.bul@gmail.com) of the tour agency said that they are running tours without issue in the country, but all in the South. He was professional and responsive if anyone wants to contact him.

In 2018 there was a post here on the Hubb of someone that managed a West to East crossing from Chad into Sudan.

https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hu...gh-sahel-95153

You'd have to really want it, but perhaps the reverse is possible? He was given a police escort through the Darfur zone, through in a day. Now in these covid days there is a much higher risk you could be stranded in an inconvenient country due to border closures.