West Africa

Bit of a powder keg at the moment thank to MAGA fiddling - between christian and muslim. There's been some violence.

I was going to suggest Morocco but you've already decided that bit.
 
Avoid both.

Ghana is marginally safer than Nigeria but I wouldn't be caught dead (pardon the pun) going to either.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ghana/safety-and-security

I've got a Lithuanian friend who has not long come back from Nigeria and he won't be going back if he can help it and his longtime partner is Nigerian. She is from an middle/upper class Nigerian family with money and they had a body guard pretty much everywhere they went.
 
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Spent a fair bit of time in Nigeria for work. I never left the hotel, other than to go to work or the airport.

Cannot see why you’d go there for leisure tbh.
 
Well I survived. It was a work trip in part. Didnt get to explore too much.

But was reassured by hotel security with AKs and defication patrols active along the roads...
 
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I'm off for a wander around Nigeria and Ghana for 2 weeks. Any tips, tricks, do's or don't?
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I went to Ghana in 1963, claim to fame my father was working on the construction of the Tema /Accra motorway for Howards ltd. I went out for the summer holidays from school.

Kwame Nkrumah was president as I recall.

I expect that it has changed a bit in the meantime. :D
 
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A lad I went to school with had his dad abducted in Nigeria, was held hostage for 2 years if I remember right. Nothing I’ve seen suggests it has improved any in the time since.
 
Having experienced Egypt, which is a tamer part of Africa. I wouldn't want to go back.

In that part of the world, nowhere is safe. Theres basically no law unless you do something the police specifically don't like (e.g. take a photo of something or have binoculars), then you're treated like a terrorist.
 
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Yea I had a friend that used to be like a missionary and did charity work there.

She said it wouldn't uncommon for dead bodies to be just lying on the side of the road.

They were staying in a hotel one night and a bunch of people outside just started unloading their guns at the hotel.

Mental.
 
Hm

Nigeria, looks like it's good if you get off on taking risks.
Worth looking at the giv website as it seems to have a long list of places not to go
www.gov.uk

Nigeria travel advice

FCDO travel advice for Nigeria. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

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Ghana looks safer, just avoid the Bawku Municipal area
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I was in Ghana in 1976 - my father was working for the UN - and I caught some illness and almost died.
 
Just got back from Sierra Leone. Freetown.

It was safe. Being an African capital, it was hot, noisy and dirty, but the people were welcoming and it was wall to wall sunshine 32c during the day and 24c overnight.

I'm going to go back and explore the provinces by motorbike.
 
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