Everything about Albert Nile totally explained
The
White Nile (
Arabic: النيل الأبيض,
transliterated:
an-Nīl al-Ābyadˤ) is a
river of
Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the
Nile, the other being the
Blue Nile. In the strict meaning, "White Nile" refers to the river formed at
Lake No at the confluence of the Bahr al Jabal and
Bahr el Ghazal rivers. In the wider sense, "White Nile" refers to the approximately 3700 kilometers (2300 miles) of rivers draining from
Lake Victoria into the White Nile proper. It may also, depending on the speaker, refer to the headwaters of Lake Victoria.
The 19th century search by Europeans 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 European penetration of unknown jungle.
Headwaters of Lake Victoria
The most distant source of the waters of
Lake Victoria is the
Luvironza River in
Burundi, which flows into the
Rurubu River near the northern Burundian town of
Kayanza. The Ruvuvu in turn flows into the
Kagera River, the most notable feature of which is
Rusumo Falls. On 28—29 April 1994, 250,000 Rwandans crossed the bridge at Rusumo Falls into
Ngara,
Tanzania in 24 hours in what the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called the "the largest and fastest refugee exodus in modern times." The Kagera forms part of the
Rwanda-Tanzania and Tanzania-
Uganda borders before flowing into
Lake Victoria.
In Uganda
The river arising from Lake Victoria is known as the
Victoria Nile. After
Nalubaale Power Station at the mouth, the river goes through
Bujagali falls near
Jinja. It then flows north and westwards through
Uganda, feeding into
Lake Kyoga in the center of the country and then out west. At
Karuma Falls, the river sweeps under Karuma Bridge at the southeastern corner of
Murchison Falls National Park. During much of the insurgency of the
Lord's Resistance Army, Karuma Bridge, built in 1963 to help the cotton industry, was the key stop on the way to
Gulu, where vehicles would gather in convoy before being provided with a military escort for the final run north. In 2006, the
World Bank approved a 200MW hydropower project several kilometers north of the bridge, which is scheduled for completion in 2009. Just before entering Lake Albert, the river is compressed into a passage seven meters in width at
Murchison Falls, marking the entry into the Western branch of the
Great Rift Valley. The river flows into Lake Albert opposite the
Blue Mountains in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The river exiting Lake Albert to the north is known as the
Albert Nile. The river separates the
West Nile sub-region of Uganda from the rest of the country. While a bridge passes over the Albert Nile near its inlet in
Nebbi District, there's no other bridge over this section. A powered ferry connects the roads between
Adjumani and
Moyo, but navigation of the river is otherwise done by small boat or canoe.
In Sudan
The river continues north to
Nimule where it enters
Sudan and becomes known as the Bahr al Jabal ("River of the Mountain", sometimes
Mountain Nile). Bahr al Jabal was the former name of the state of
Central Equatoria. The Bahr al Jabal then winds through rapids before entering the Sudan plain and the vast swamp of the
Sudd. It eventually makes its way to
Lake No, where it merges with the Bahr el Ghazal and forms the White Nile. An
anabranch river called
Bahr el Zeraf flows out of the Bahr al Jabal and flows through the Sudd to eventually join the White Nile. The Bahr al Jabal passes through
Juba, the capital of
Southern Sudan, and the southernmost navigable point on the Nile river system, and then
Kodok, the site of the 1898
Fashoda Incident that marked an end to the "
Scramble for Africa". The river lends its name to the
state of
White Nile before merging with the larger
Blue Nile at
Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and forming the
Nile.
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