Seasonal flooding has long been part of the lifestyle of pastoral communities around the Sudd, the largest wetlands in Africa ...

For thousands of years, they referred to its annual flooding as the "Gift of the Nile." Each summer, like clockwork, the river would take possession of a strip of land on either side of its banks.

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The Nile River used to flood in the late summer every year. This flooding brought nutrient-rich soil and washed away accumulated salts in the soil, too. That's why Egyptian soil along the Nile River ...

I’m travelling with TUI River Cruises, which has just launched ... the Aswan Dam (construction started in 1960 to stop the Nile from flooding), as well as an island inhabited by the Nubians ...

At 4,130 miles (6,650 km) long, the Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. Some people consider the Amazon in South America to be longer. This is because the many hundreds of channels ...

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