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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Nile River

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Africa

South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?

Abandoned homes in South Sudan. rameesha bilal shah / shutterstock   By Liz Stephens, University of Reading and Jacob Levi, Charité – Berlin University of Medicine   Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of thousands of people there were already forced from their homes by huge floods […]

todaySeptember 12, 2024 34

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Looting of the Sudan National Museum – more is at stake than priceless ancient treasures

    By Mohamed Albdri Sliman Bashir, University of Khartoum   Reports continue to emerge of the alleged looting of tens of thousands of artefacts from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. The museum, near the confluence of the White and the Blue Niles, holds a history of the region, home to ancient civilisations, temples and pyramids. But it has been caught in the crossfire in a war between the […]

todaySeptember 10, 2024 29

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Microplastics found in Nile River’s tilapia fish: new study

A fisherman on the River Nile. Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images Dalia Saad, University of the Witwatersrand The Nile is one of the world’s most famous rivers. It’s also Africa’s most important freshwater system. About 300 million people live in the 11 countries it flows through. Many rely on its waters for agriculture and fishing to make a living. The Nile’s two main tributaries, the Blue Nile and the White […]

todayFebruary 7, 2024 15

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