Politics poses challenge to scientific research. One example is the Tibesti Mountains, which is remote and politically unstable in recent decades due to conflicts over uranium deposit underneath. The area, however, could possibly serve as one spectacular example of intracontinental volcanism or hotspot. Detailed studies of the area divided into Western, Central and Eastern Tibesti Volcanic Province shows no significant sign of spatially progressive volcanism, and hence it is unlikely to be a hotspot as the manifestation of Hawaiian or Galapagos Islands. More data and systematic field survey and studies, for instance geochemical and radiometric dating, are great topics to focus on in the near future. The Tibesti board swell dome is also studied as a regional river system to estimate the uplift rate.