almost deep enough to submerge London’s Shard. Stretching for 2,900 miles (4,700 km), it’s Africa’s second-longest river, after the Nile, and flows through seven countries: the Republic of ...

At 6,650km long, the Nile is the longest river on the planet. And though it empties into the heavily settled Mediterranean world, it rises deep in equatorial Africa, a region that has long ...

It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals to bring the water to the crops a process that's called irrigation. So it's no accident that one of ...