Even though they reached the shore before the sun going down, Eric didn't walk out as he waited for night to fall.
It sounded like a cliché, but everyone understood that during the night the probability to enter someplace unnoticed was higher.
As soon as the clock hit twelve, he and the ladies came out of the ocean, landed on shore, changed their clothes quickly, and then disappeared into the wilderness of Africa.
Nobody noticed them entering, and they had no complications on the way either. Since they didn't even need to approach settlements or towns for food, they immediately made their way towards the rendezvous point.
Eric had separated the 1000 men he had gathered into 10 groups of 100. Each group would settle in one country and create an intelligence network in there, as they even pinpointed their targets.