The 4,160-mile-long Nile is formed by the White Nile, which originates near Lake Victoria in Uganda, and the Blue Nile, which begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

WHEN Major Cheesman entered upon his duties as H.B.M. Consul in north-west Abyssinia, he found that no large-scale maps of the Abyssinian portion of the Blue Nile were available. He was also ...

Gushing out of a forest just south of Lake Tana, the Blue Nile greedily soaks up this bounty, quickly swelling from a stream to a torrent. Though slightly longer, the White Nile, ...

The New Yorker, April 28, 1962 P. 47. ANNALS OF EXPLORATION about the Blue Nile, tracing its course from its outlet in the southern end of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, along ...

The Blue Nile, sweeping out from Lake Tana in a wide loop, does indeed encompass the ancient land of Ethiopia. Though today the fountain of this paradise is turned off, ...

Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...

An agreement signed by colonial powers in 1929 gave Egypt the sole right to use the waters of the Nile, whose twin origin is in Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Lake Tana (Blue Nile) ...

The Blue Nile, which constitutes 59 to 64 per cent of the Nile’s water, originates in Lake Tana in Ethiopia. However, ...

Gushing out of a forest just south of Lake Tana, the Blue Nile greedily soaks up this bounty, quickly swelling from a stream to a torrent. Though slightly longer, the White Nile, ...