We even measure the level of the River Nile to see how much flooding we can expect. We have three seasons: Akhet, the flooding season, Peret, the growing season and Shemu, the harvesting season.
Seasonal flooding has long been part of the lifestyle of pastoral communities around the Sudd, the largest wetlands in Africa, in the Nile River floodplain. But since the 1960s the swamp has kept ...
The thousands of people who lost their mudbrick homes in Elgezira Aba in the end of last year, due to flooding of the White Nile, are not the only victims of the high-water level, mainly caused by the ...
Activists told Sudan Tribune that “the White Nile flood has engulfed Kosti, Al-Kawa, Al-Qatina, Al-Shawal, Al-Dubeibat, Al-Marabie, Wad Al-Lubaih, villages in Al-Jabalain, villages in Shikan ...
The White Nile State government blamed the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the flooding, alleging they closed the gates of the Jebel Aulia Dam. The RSF, however, claimed the army’s shelling of ...
Seasonal flooding has long been part of the lifestyle of pastoral communities around the Sudd, the largest wetlands in Africa, in the Nile River floodplain. But since the 1960s the swamp has kept ...
El Gezira Aba / Jebel Aulia — The humanitarian situation in White Nile state has rapidly deteriorated over the past week as floods and a cholera outbreak continue to wreak havoc. Thousands are ...