🇧🇯 Benin @Starlink ✖️ No service The Chinese are really helping to fix up the place, could be a factor. Cleaner streets in Cotonou than Paris.

🇹🇬 Togo @Starlink ✔️ Lome: 46 Mbps The first thing I saw after crossing the border was a naked dude defecating on the beach in a heap of burning garbage. Didn’t stay in the country long.

🇬🇭 Ghana @Starlink ✔️ Cape Coast: 141 Mbps ✔️ Accra: 156 Mbps ✔️ Volta Delta: 86 Mbps Officially available and works everywhere. Progress

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast @Starlink ✖️ No service It worked at the Liberian border but never again. Geoblocked in Côte d’Ivoire.

🇱🇷 Liberia @Starlink ✔️ Monrovia: 79 Mbps ✔️ Nimba Mountain: 43 Mbps Was faster than hotel WiFi and I could take it with a battery to have internet where the WiFi didn’t reach.

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone @Starlink ✔️ Freetown: 178 Mbps The police at the border did not like my Japanese/British RHD vehicle. Apparently banned in the country. After some discussion, we agreed a ‘fine’ and I promised to only drive through the country, so I didn’t stay long.

🇬🇳 Guinea @Starlink ✖️ No service Geoblocked at the border was a huge bummer, especially later in the night with no cell service. Woke up in my tent the following morning to chants of “Prooooo Government”. Many stories about Guinea, not on my recommendation list for prospective travellers.

🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau @Starlink ✔️ Cacheu: 71 Mbps ✔️ Outside Bissau: 136 Mbps ✔️ Buba: 173 Mbps ✔️ Guinea border road: 86 Mbps Worked like a charm in the most remote areas of Guinea-Bissau, where there was zero cell service.

🇬🇲 The Gambia @Starlink ✖️No service 32 Mbps for a few minutes, then no service That’s the pattern for Starlink geoblock, managed to get my Hotels.com booking in though haha

🇸🇳 Senegal @Starlink ✔️ Borderlands: 146 Mbps ✔️ Saint Louis: 158 Mbps ✔️ Dakar: 61 Mbps Not on the official Starlink map, but the mini on roam definitely works in Senegal

🇲🇷 Mauritania @Starlink ✔️Nouadhibou 96 Mbps ✖️Middle of nowhere dry lakebed: No service ✖️Nouakchott: No service ✖️Diawling NP: No service Starlink didn’t really work in Mauritania for me. I think the only way I got service in Nouadhibou was because I tried on a new coastal road that Google maps thought was in the sea, ie coastal service seems to work if Starlink thinks you are a boat, but that’s just speculation. I wanted to try Starlink in no man’s land between the Morocco/Western Sahara/Mauritania border, but it was too sketchy to bring out. Took over 6 hrs to cross. Tip if you go: Mauritania is technically a ‘dry’ country but you can get beer once you cross the border if you go to the Chinese restaurant by the port. Also very good food.

🇲🇦 Morocco @Starlink ✖️Rif Mountains: No service (Switched from Roam -> Global Roam plan) ✔️ Atlas Mountains: 48 Mbps ✔️ Erg Chigaga Sahara: 150 Mbps ✖️Western Sahara (disputed territory): No service My Starlink service location is in England, so the continent/Europe ‘geolock’ for Starlink mini is real. Interesting that it is also based on political geography rather than physical (had coverage with the base Euro Roam plan in Ceuta). Once I upgraded to the global plan it worked even in the remotest part of Morocco. Notably, it did not work in the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara. On the ground you wouldn’t notice a difference travelling from Morocco proper, but it seems SpaceX has taken the decision to ‘geoblock’ the area as I tried at a few locations along the way. The border crossing to Mauritania was something else.

Pillars of Hercules @Starlink 🇬🇮Gibraltar 48 Mbps 🇪🇸Ceuta 15 Mbps It works on both sides of the strait