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Water: A fool won’t even find water in the Nile!
The Niles in South Sudan and Sudan met fishermen who deal carefully with the water that nourishes them and business people who exploit the resource without restraint. They report on conflicts around water but also on exemplary projects where water is shared peacefully. In short, the fool is still swimming, but for how long?
Due to massive water problems in the Jammam camp in South Sudan, refugees have started to drill for new water sources in random places. (photo: Christian Als / laif)
Due to massive water problems in the Jammam camp in South Sudan, refugees have started to drill for new water sources in random places. (photo: Christian Als / laif)
Due to massive water problems in the Jammam camp in South Sudan, refugees have started to drill for new water sources in random places. (photo: Christian Als / laif)

Reliable sources

MiCT The Niles
Facts and quotes about water.°
25.04.2024
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Nubian holy water

Samia Ibrahim
From baptisms to marriages, ritual cleansing with Nile water has a long standing in Nubian culture.
25.04.2024
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When the well runs dry

A. Ibrahim
They can see the water source and they even pay their water bills, but residents of Nyala are thirsty.
25.04.2024
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Protecting an insecure resource

Hamid Ibrahim
Kassala is struggling to safeguard its water reserves, but the demand usually reaches far beyond the supply.
25.04.2024
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Kuajok, South Sudan, April 21, 2014. (photo: The Niles | Aping Kuluel) Kuajok, South Sudan, April 21, 2014. (photo: The Niles | Aping Kuluel) Kuajok, South Sudan, April 21, 2014. (photo: The Niles | Aping Kuluel)

The element of blessings

Joseph Nashion
Two old men, one from the Azande and another from the Muru ethnicity, recall how water was once a sacred aspect of their communities.
25.04.2024
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A woman saves her belongings as her homestead drowns in floods, Unity State, August 9, 2013. (photo: The Niles | Bonifacio Taban)
Rainfall, lakes and boreholes
25.04.2024  |  Archive
States of flux map. (photo: The Niles)
States of flux
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Girls fetching water in Sudan’s Kordofan region, Sept. 26, 2012. (photo: The Niles | Mohamed Hilaly)
“We are better off than some”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
A farmer in Karbab village, Darfur, July 3, 2014. (photo: UN Photo | Albert González Farran)
“Fighting affects entire populations”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Mama Joshua serves the best spiced tea in Yambio. (photo: The Niles | Joseph Nashion)
“I took it upon myself to start again”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Chemical engineer Hashim Tayeb in his laboratory, Kassala, May 2015. (photo: The Niles | Hamid Ibrahim)
“Facing the hazard of unclean water”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
A girl fills Nile water in a container in Juba, March 22, 2015. (photo: The Niles | Samir Bol)
Juba’s deadly water
25.04.2024  |  Archive
A woman tries to safe her property from floods in South Sudan’s Unity State on August 9, 2013. (photo: The Niles | Bonifacio Taban)
Hostages of war and weather
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Call a donkey! Water business in Yambio. (photo: The Niles | Joseph Nashion)
Rider on the storm
25.04.2024  |  Archive
(photo: The Niles | Hadia Elias)
Did you know ...
25.04.2024  |  Archive
The Zeer is an affordable and safe way to filter water. (photo: The Niles | Hadia Elias)
Need clean water?
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Kiir Thon Ajak receiving cholera treatment at the Juba Teaching Hospital, July 27, 2016. (photo: The Niles | Gale Julius)
The cholera threat returns
25.04.2024  |  Archive
A boy drinks from a stagnant water source in Kuajok, South Sudan, April 21, 2012. (photo: The Niles | Aping Kuluel)
How to halt Guinea-worm disease?
25.04.2024  |  Archive
How water is filtered, transported and consumed in Sudan and South Sudan. (photo: The Niles | Mohamed Hilali & Anthony Kamba)
How water is filtered, transported and consumed
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Fresh fish thanks to an old man. Zadu Abdullah (left) Hussein at work. (photo: The Niles | Osman Shinger)
Fish & Ships
“Blue Nile fish are tastier”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Some of the most common fish in the Nile: 1. Bayad (Bagrus bajad); 2. Fahaka pufferfish (Tetraodon lineatus); 3. Electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). (photo: The Niles | Illustrations by Mayu Nakai)
Fish & Ships
Fishing in Juba
25.04.2024  |  Archive
The main fish market in Port Sudan, March 6, 2014. (photo: The Niles | Abdalhady Alhag)
Fish & Ships
Eastern Sudan develops appetite for seafood
18.11.2016  |  Water
(photo: The Niles | Mahir Abu Goukh)
Brisk Business on Nile Street
25.04.2024  |  Archive
The champion Ahmed Adam Abdelrahman. (photo: The Niles | Hassan Faroog)
Beach Boys: Swimming & Tourism
“My hatred to water changed into love”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
(photo: Abdalhady Al-Hag)
Beach Boys: Swimming & Tourism
“It is my first time at the sea and it is charming”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Juba goes Miami: Fun on Queen Juba, a double-decker boat with twin 320-horse-power engines. (photo: The Niles | Akim Mugisa)
Beach Boys: Swimming & Tourism
Launching the ‘Oky African Boat Cruise Party’
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Morys Koulibaly wearing The Niles swimming trunks. (photo: The Niles)
Beach Boys: Swimming & Tourism
Sew & Swim: How to do it!
25.04.2024  |  Archive
A women fetches water near Juba. (photo: The Niles)
Short fiction
Labour
25.04.2024  |  Archive
Confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, near Khartoum. (photo: De Agostini, N. Cirani | Gettyimages)
Short fiction
A village in the memory of water
25.04.2024  |  Archive
How far do you have to walk everyday to fetch water? (photo: The Niles | Nik Lehnert)
“I fetch 10 containers of water every day”
25.04.2024  |  Archive
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