Friday July 02, 2010
Battle for the Nile as rivals lay claim to Africa's great river
Xan Rice
The Guardian
With crises of population and resources upstream, there is now deadlock over who owns the Nile
Simon Kitra's back garden looks out over the world's second-largest freshwater lake. His front lawn opens onto the world's longest river. If the 20-year-old Ugandan fisherman needs reminding of where his tiny island is, he can look up to the pink obelisk on the hillside, marking where the British explorer John Hanning Speke, sextant in hand, stood in 1862 to ascertain the point where Lake Victoria begins to empty — the source of the Nile.
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