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  Sudan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Nile system provides irrigation for strips of agricultural settlement for much of its course in Sudan and also for the Al Gezira plain, situated between the White Nile and the Blue Nile, just south of their confluence at Khartoum.
Rainfall diminishes from south to north in Sudan; thus, the south is characterized by swampland (the Sudd region) and woodland, the center by savanna and grassland, and the north by desert and semidesert.
Sudan was cited by the UN Human Rights Commission for human-rights violations (including alleged widespread slavery and forced labor), condemned for supporting terrorism abroad, and accused by human-rights groups of “ethnic cleansing” in its offensive against the south.
www.bartleby.com /65/su/Sudan.html   (2775 words)

  
 Sudan
Sudan is bordered on the north by Egypt, on the east by the Red Sea and Ethiopia, on the south by Uganda, Kenya and Zaire and on the west by the Central African Republic, Chad and Libya.
Sudan is one of seven countries listed by the US State Department as a sponsor of terrorism.
Sudan’s parliament was dissolved in December 2000 by the President and a new cabinet was formed.
us-africa.tripod.com /sudan.html   (2446 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD . Sudan - The Quick and the Terrible . Facts and Stats | PBS
Sudan has an estimated population of 39 million, 52 percent of which are fl, and 39 percent Arab.
In Sudan, "Arab" is an ethnic and cultural term, typically referring to those who can trace their ancestry to the original inhabitants of the Arabian peninsula and whose mother tongue is Arabic.
Darfur is a region in western Sudan, abutting Chad and the Central African Republic.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html   (1364 words)

  
 Sudan and Her Neighbours
Sudan is also geographically the largest country on the continent, nearly equivalent in size to the U.S. east of the Mississippi River.
Sudan’s Interior Minister announced in April 2002 that it was monitoring the movement of vehicles “from a neighboring country” engaged in transporting people in military uniform to ambush vehicles plying the Sudan-Libya road.
Sudan and Uganda are engaged in a complex and not so delicate “pas de deux” as they work their way through this period of important change in their relations.
www.issafrica.org /AF/current/Sudan03.html   (5723 words)

  
 The Nile
The Nile, as defined starting with the Kyaka river in Burundi, is 6,671 km long, and has a surface area of a total of 3,350,000 km² (5 times the area of France).
The Nile can be divided into three zones, starting in the south: The first consists of tributaries to the two streams of the White Nile and the Blue Nile which join near Khartoum in Sudan.
The width of the Nile north from Aswan in Egypt — it's most important stretch in terms of inhabitants and economy — is 2.8 km in average.
i-cias.com /e.o/nile.htm   (993 words)

  
 Crimes of War > Sudan Magazine
Buoth is in the former province of Western Upper Nile, an area under rebel authority close to the border between the largely rebel-controlled South and the government-controlled North, in the heart of Sudan’s oil development zone.
The watercourses are the interconnecting channels of the Bahr-el-Ghazal (Nam River), a tributary of the White Nile, which flows from East Central Africa through Sudan to Egypt; the cattle here belong to the Nuer people, the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan, between one and two million strong.
Not all areas of Sudan have experienced the direct impact of war: it is, for the most part, a low-intensity conflict; poor communications and transportation deter the spread of fighting.
www.crimesofwar.org /sudan-mag/sudan-overview.html   (3061 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | White Nile seeks Sudan oil rights
White Nile is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), which is calling for a detailed document outlining the fine details of the proposed deal with the southern Sudan leadership.
White Nile will be given a 60% stake in a 67,000km exploration area known as Block Ba, which may hold as much as six billion barrels of oil.
The remaining 40% of the Block Ba is retained by Nile Petroleum.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/business/4481193.stm   (458 words)

  
 White Nile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White Nile (Arabic: النيل الأبيض, transliterated: an-Nīl al-Ābyaðˤ) is a river of Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the other being the Blue Nile.
The 19th century search for the source of the Nile was mainly focused on the White Nile, which disappeared into the depths of what was then known as Darkest Africa.
The discovery of the source of the White Nile thus came to symbolise modern civilisation's penetration of unknown jungle in order to finally map and tame the wild and 'barbaric' source of the most influential of early civilisations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Nile   (235 words)

  
 SUDAN OPERATIONS - Online Information article about SUDAN OPERATIONS
February, Mahmud crossed the Nile to Shendi with some 12,000 fighting men, and with Osman Digna advanced along the right bank of the Nile to Aliab, where he struck across the.
The Nile was falling, and Kitchener decided to keep the gunboats above the impassable rapid at Um Tuir, 4 M. north of the confluence of the Atbara with the Nile, where he constructed a fort.
The position was found to be a strong one, occupied by over 6000 men; and as it was not considered prudent to attack it with an inferior force at such a distance from the river base, the flying column returned.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/SUDAN_OPERATIONS.html   (4411 words)

  
 SUDAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The devastation of the civilian population in southern Sudan is the fault of all the parties to the conflict.
During the period prior to independence in 1956, southern Sudan was administered separately from the north by the British under the Anglo-Egyptian condominium government1 which had ruled Sudan since the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Sudan government has engaged in widespread violations of the rules of war during the period of 1992 to early 1994, indiscriminately killing southern civilians, burning their villages, and indiscriminately bombing and shelling their population centers.
www.hrw.org /reports/1993/sudan   (20020 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Khartoum, Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum, translates as “Elephant’s Trunk.” The name describes the shape of the Nile where the Blue and the White Nile Rivers unite to form the single Nile River that flows northward into Egypt.
The White Nile originates in equatorial regions, where rainfall occurs throughout the year; as a result, it runs at a nearly constant rate throughout the year.
The Blue Nile swells in the late summer and early fall with rains from the summer monsoons.
earth.jsc.nasa.gov /EarthObservatory/Khartoum,_Sudan.htm   (384 words)

  
 The Sudan - An Introduction
Situated in northeast Africa, the Sudan is the largest country on the continent.
The greatest part of Sudan is vast plain traversed by the northward flowing Nile River and its tributaries.
The dominating geographical feature of Sudan is the Nile River, formed near Khartoum by the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile Rivers.
www.africaguide.com /country/sudan   (163 words)

  
 Sudan's Treasures, Secrets, Riddles & Legends Along the Nile
From its summit is a commanding view of the Nile and at its foot lies the Temple of Amun, second only in length to the famous Egyptian Karnak Temple.
On the east bank of the Nile northeast of Shendi, and not far from the Temple of the Sun are the ruins of pyramids, temples and palaces.
Stories from the past are humbly retold in the national museum, the ethnological museum, the natural history museum and the abundance of ruins in the surrounding area.
www.niletrip.com /sudan-wonders.html   (629 words)

  
 Select Medical IMAX Theater : Mystery of the Nile : Facts
Mystery of the Nile is a breathtaking new cinematic adventure documenting one of the greatest expeditions in modern times—the first full descent of the world’s greatest and deadliest river.
The Nile river basin is so immense, it covers 1/10th of the entire African continent, or more than 1,300,000 square miles (2,092,147 km).
The water’s volume from the Blue Nile increases tremendously in the monsoons season, from July to September.
www.whitakercenter.org /imax/Nile/NileFacts.asp   (521 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : White Nile Sudan JV details unlikely Friday - source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The SPLM is set to form the interim government of southern Sudan later this year.
Previously a spokesman for White Nile had said that the company hadn’t released the full details of the agreement because it was "awaiting clearance regarding the structure of the deal with the London Stock Exchange."
A company spokesman has previously said the two founders of White Nile, former England cricketer Phil Edmonds and mining entrepreneur Andrew Groves are in talks with other African governments to strike similar agreements.
www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=8230   (339 words)

  
 A Visit to Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sudan is the world's largest producer of gum Arabic, and almost all of it is exported to the USA.
Sudan was ruled jointly by the British and Egyptians until 1956, when it received its independence and was declared a republic.
Sudan is a rich agricultural country, but because of the war people have had to flee their farms and cannot plant crops.
mec.sas.upenn.edu /marhaba/sudan.htm   (1258 words)

  
 NBI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
From the confluence of the White and Blue Nile, the river continues to flow northwards into Egypt and on to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Ruvyironza, regarded as the ultimate source of the Nile, is one of the upper branches of the Kagera River.
Cities: The major cities that are located on the edge of the Nile and White Nile are: Cairo, Gondokoro, Khartoum, Aswan, Thebes/Luxor, Karnak, and the town of Alexandria lies near the Rozeta branch.
www.nilebasin.org /_borders/theNileRiver.htm   (792 words)

  
 White Nile — FactMonster.com
White Nile, river, one of the chief tributaries of the Nile, E Africa.
In this wider sense, its remotest headstream is the Luvironza River in Burundi, which flows into the Ruvuvu River and which, in turn, is a tributary of the Kagera River, one of the principal headstreams feeding into Lake Victoria.
At Juba it leaves the highlands of central Africa and enters the broad Sudan plain; downstream at Bor, it flows through the Sudd, a vast swampy area named after the floating vegetation (sudd) that sometimes hinders navigation.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0852128.html   (344 words)

  
 Contents
Thus the Natural Resources Programme of the United Nations University has focused on the factors preventing the effective use of knowledge, and then on the development of means to overcome the identified difficulties.
Activities were centred at the University of Khartoum in the Sudan, and the Department of Geography of the University College of Swansea, United Kingdom, participated as a co-operating institution.
After a study on Natural Resources and Rural Development in Arid Lands: Case Studies from Sudan, edited by H. Davies and published by the UNU in 1985, the present report focuses on the interactions between man and natural resources in the White Nile Province of the Sudan.
www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/80579e/80579E00.htm   (222 words)

  
 SUDAN AND HER NEIGHBORS
  A member of Sudan’s negotiating team, Sayed al-Khatib, commented at a meeting in Washington in mid-December that aspects of the talks are still in “treacherous and uncharted waters.”  A member of the SPLA team, Nhial Deng Nhial, noted at the same meeting that the problem now is “operationalizing” the Machakos Protocol.
  Sudan’s Interior Minister announced in April 2002 that it was monitoring the movement of vehicles “from a neighboring country” engaged in transporting people in military uniform to ambush vehicles plying the Sudan-Libya road.
  Sudan and Uganda are engaged in a complex and not so delicate “pas de deux” as they work their way through this period of important change in their relations.
www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/03/07-03-03/SUDAN.htm   (5828 words)

  
 the Living Africa: the land - Nile River - intro
The Nile River basin is immense and occupies an area about one-tenth of the continent of Africa.
The Nile receives its name from the Greek Neilos, which means a valley or river valley.
In those regions, especially The Sudan, where there is enough rainfall to support cultivation, the high temperatures evaporate enough of the water making irrigation necessary.
library.thinkquest.org /16645/the_land/nile_river.shtml   (341 words)

  
 White Nile — Infoplease.com
West Nile virus in the United States: an update on an emerging infectious disease.
The Nile perch in Lake Victoria: local responses and adaptations.
Five-year surveillance of West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses in southeastern Virginia.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0852128.html   (435 words)

  
 Sudan
On October 1, the Government of Sudan announced that the movements of all U.S. citizens visiting Sudan would be restricted to a 25-mile radius of the Republican Palace in Central Khartoum.
Several of these individuals had solicited and obtained escorts in Chad who allegedly promised to facilitate entry into Sudan but who were ultimately unable to follow through with their commitments.
U.S. citizens who travel to Sudan despite this Travel Warning are strongly urged to register with the Embassy in Khartoum or through the State Department’s Travel Registration website, https://travelregistration.state.gov.
travel.state.gov /travel/sudan_warning.html   (654 words)

  
 White Nile Placing
The fund raising follows the appointment of Terra Seis Geophysical Ltd ('Terra Seis'), a wholly owned subsidiary of Terra Seis International, to conduct an extensive seismic evaluation programme of White Nile's Block Ba oil licence area which is approximately 65,000 sq km in South Sudan.
White Nile Chairman Phil Edmonds said: "We are extremely pleased to have concluded the placing.
It controls 50% of White Nile following the issue of 155,000,000 to Nile Petroleum Corp, the South Sudanese National oil company for an interest in a petroleum concession, Block Ba.
www.advfn.com /news_Placing_11718911.html   (423 words)

  
 AFRICA - Sudan Country Close-Up
To the east, the Nile, Blue and White Nile Rivers run the length of the country.
To the west, the Marra Mountains (3,000-10,000 ft.) act as the watershed for the Nile and Congo rivers.
Starting from the north and moving clockwise, Sudan is bordered by Egypt, the Red Sea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Chad and Libya.
www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/sahel/countries/sudan_environment.html   (163 words)

  
 Sudan: where the Blue Nile meets the White Nile
To the left is a graph showing the population changes for Sudan since 1950 with some projections for the future.
As you can see the population was only 10 million people in 1950 risng rapidly to the current figure of around 32 million.
In many ways the population pyramid of Sudan is similar to Ethiopia's.
www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk /curric/newgeog/africa/Sudan.htm   (117 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The White Nile: Books: Alan Moorehead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This volume is set in the latter half of the 19th Century, and narrates the quest to discover the source of the Nile, followed by the attempted exploitation of Africa, the struggle for power, sveral wars, and so on.
This book deals with the Upper Nile region of Sudan and Central Africa, primarily in the latter half of the 19th century.
The descriptions of the Sudd region of the Nile raised visions of Humphrey Bogart dragging the African Queen and Kathrine Hepburn through the reed choked channels of another African river.
www.amazon.com /White-Nile-Alan-Moorehead/dp/0060956399   (1899 words)

  
 Alibris: Sudan
On the eve of the British invasion of Sudan in 1898, officer Harry Feversham resigns his commission rather than fight, drawing accusations of cowardice by his fiance and friends.
A stunning literary memoir from three of Sudan's Lost Boys recounts a harrowing, horrific journey across an unforgiving landscape and mourns the culture that they left behind.
From its source in the wild Ethiopian highlands, this river passes through some of the most untamed country on Earth as it rushes toward its desert rendezvous with the White Nile in Sudan.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Sudan   (874 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Flooding along the White Nile, Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Heavy rains in Sudan flooded the White Nile between August 3-11, 2003.
The area between the White Nile and the Blue Nile to the east is dotted with pools of standing water as well.
In these images, water is blue, vegetation is bright green, naturally bare soil and low vegetation are tan and drab green, and clouds are light blue and white.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15781   (159 words)

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