The Blue Nile and the Lake Tana, located in the North West highlands of Ethiopia in the Amara Regional State, have been a passion that has driven many explorers since historic times. In ancient Greece ...
Thomas Pesquet: Ethiopian landscapes are just as colourful! Here is the largest lake of the country, Lake Tana Autre touche de couleur en Éthiopie : l’île de Dek et le […] ...
Countries in the Nile Basin that have hitherto been unable to use the Nile waters could start doing so soon. This follows an agreement signed by Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Burundi ...
THE NILE : THE LIFE STORY OF A RIVER —Emil Ludwig—Viking ($5). Emil Ludwig has written 13 biographies. Each of them, winding somehow safe to the last page, made him think of a river. And once a river ...
The Nile River is almost always associated with Egypt. Think back to Herodotus, who called Egypt the "gift of the Nile.” Or to baby Moses, whose river-borne bassinet made it all the way to Pharaoh's ...
As I boarded the Lake Tana ferry at 6 on a Sunday morning, I found myself surrounded by cows, goats, stacks of large white bags of corn, firewood, empty plastic jugs and other mystery items covered in ...