[1] Four stages of the rally scheduled to be held in Niger were cancelled following a reported terrorist threat.

[1][2] Competitors were airlifted from Niamey airport to Libya where the rally was restarted five days later at Sabha.

[2][3] The rally was won by French driver Jean-Louis Schlesser and his co-driver Henri Magne in a Schlesser-Renault buggy.,[4] with the motorcycle title going to BMW's Richard Sainct and the truck title to Kamaz's Vladimir Chagin.

2 Heinz Kinigadner 3 Kari Tiainen 4 Fabrizio Meoni 6 Alfie Cox 7 Joan Roma 9 Giovanni Sala 12 Jordi Arcarons 16 Carlo de Gavardo 18 Isidre Esteve Pujol

1 Richard Sainct 5 Oscar Gallardo 8 Jimmy Lewis 10 John Deacon 19 Jean Brucy Honda 23 Le Blanc 77 Ikemachi Yoshio Cars principal entry Schlesser-Renault 250 Jean Louis Schelesser 253 Jose Maria Servia Mitsubishi 251 Jean Pierre Fontenay 254 Kenjiro Shinozuka 256 Jutta Kleinschmidt 260 Carlos Souza 271 Hiroshi Masuoka Ford 252 Bruno Saby Nissan 255 Thierry Delavergne 259 Philippe Wambergue 269 Gregoire de Mevius Trucks principal entry Kamaz 409 Vladimir Tchaguine 416 Firdaus Kabirov Tatra 407 Karel Loprais 408 André de Azevedo 414 Bedrich Slenovsky Hino 400 Yoshimasa Sugawara