(Getty Images)| When this 1,300-foot-wide torrent of water gushes 147 feet down through jungle overgrowth, it's easy to understand how the Blue Nile Falls (or Tis Issat, which is Amharic for ...

[The Nile river] comes from a very huge lake of the [African] lands," the account reads. That description sounds very much like Murchison Falls, a gorge between Lake Victoria (the source of the ...

Over the last century, the Mediterranean Sea, which fronts the coast of the Nile Delta, has risen by 20 centimetres (six inches) and saltwater intrusion has created a major challenge, experts say.