The Source of the Nile Bridge, also New Jinja Bridge, which was commissioned on 17 October 2018, by the President of Uganda, is a cable-stayed bridge...
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stream. However, the Blue Nile is the source of most of the water of the Nile downstream, containing 80% of the water and silt. The White Nile is longer and...
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of Lake Victoria, the most remote of which being 3,700 km (2,300 mi) from the Blue Nile. The 19th-century search by Europeans for the source of the Nile...
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The Blue Nile (Amharic: ጥቁር አባይ, romanized: t’ikʼuri ābayi; Oromo: Mormor or Abbayaa, lit. 'father of streams'; Arabic: النيل الأزرق, romanized: an-Nīl...
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Jinja, Uganda (redirect from History of Jinja, Uganda)
east of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. It sits along the northern shores of Lake Victoria, near the source of the White Nile, at an...
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Engineering "New Jinja Bridge". Others references "The Feasibility Study on the Construction of a New Bridge across River Nile at Jinja" (PDF). Japan...
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The Shambat Bridge was a bridge in Sudan which crossed the Nile connecting Omdurman to Khartoum North. The bridge was built from 1963 to 1966 by the Italian...
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John Hanning Speke (category British military personnel of the Crimean War)
expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria (known to locals...
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Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. The co-founder of Chic, he has written, produced...
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West Nile virus (WNV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes West Nile fever. It is a member of the family Flaviviridae, from the genus Flavivirus...
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Kiira Motors Corporation (category Motor vehicle manufacturers of Uganda)
a distance of over 230 kilometers; Transportation of the Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament of Uganda from the Source of the Nile Bridge to the Kiira Vehicle...
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Lake Itasca (redirect from Source of the Mississippi)
modern definitions, as with the Nile River and Amazon River, would be considered the actual source, though less dramatic than the lake's outflow. Henry Schoolcraft...
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Suez Canal (redirect from Nile Canal)
Dynasty of Egypt) may have constructed the ancient canal, the Canal of the Pharaohs, joining the Nile with the Red Sea (1897–1839 BCE), when an irrigation...
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Sudanese civil war (2023–present) (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
culminated in the destruction of the Shambat Bridge, which connected Khartoum North to Omdurman over the Nile; the bridge's destruction severing a critical...
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A Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed in 1940–1941 by the British for military use during the Second World...
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Road. The Pakwach Bridge on this road, is the fourth permanent bridge across River Nile in Uganda, the others being (1) the Source of the Nile Bridge (2)...
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Nyenga, Uganda (category Cities in the Great Rift Valley)
The Mukono–Kyetume–Katosi–Nyenga Road passes through Nyenga in a general southwest to northeast direction on the way to the Source of the Nile Bridge...
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Njeru (category Populated places on the Nile)
of the northern corridor of the Trans-Africa Highway. The Kampala–Jinja Expressway connects to the Source of the Nile Bridge in Njeru. In 2014, the national...
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against an RSF garrison in White Nile State and regained control over the Al-Umda and Al-Abbasiya neighbourhoods of Omdurman. Seven people were killed...
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Pharaoh (video game) (redirect from Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile)
pack, Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile (known as simply Cleopatra), was released in 2000, developed by BreakAway Games. In 2001, both the game and expansion pack...
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Bab-el-Mandeb (redirect from Bridge of the Horns)
February 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy Henri J. Dumont (2009). The Nile: Origin, Environments...
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Khartoum (redirect from Khartoum, The Sudan)
two parts of the Nile, the Khartoum metropolitan area is a tripartite metropolis consisting of Khartoum proper and linked by bridges to Khartoum North...
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Nile blue (or Nile blue A) is a stain used in biology and histology. It may be used with live or fixed cells, and imparts a blue colour to cell nuclei...
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most of the war, the battle for Khartoum was in stalemate. However, on 11 November, the Shambat Bridge over the Nile was destroyed, denying the RSF a...
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Khartoum North (category Populated places on the Nile)
the confluence of the Blue Nile with the White. Until 2023, the Shambat Bridge connected it with Omdurman to its west. Another major bridge links it with...
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establishment of a Hausa emirate in Blue Nile State. Over the course of several attacks and massacres, hundreds of civilians were killed up until the violence...
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The Waitakere / Nile River is a river on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It rises in the Paparoa Range and flows through a limestone karst...
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The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884–1885), was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at...
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Island Bridge". "El Mek Nimir Bridge". "Victory Bridge". "Omdurman Bridge". "Blue Nile Road & Railway Bridge". "Shambat Bridge". "Al-Halfaia Bridge". "Kober...
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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (redirect from Nile Dam)
impacts of the dam have been the source of severe regional controversy. The Government of Egypt, a country which depends on the Nile for about 90% of its water...
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