White Nile

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Sir Richard Francis Burton: soldier, explorer, geographer, cartographer, anthropologist, diplomat, polyglot and author
The other Burton – Denis Fahey on Sir Richard Francis Burton’s life of adventure

Nowadays the name Richard Burton evokes the memory of the Welsh actor and husband of Elizabeth Taylor but in earlier times it belonged to one of the m(...)

Protesters block a sidestreet in Khartoum on Tuesday to stop military vehicles from driving through. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Sudan’s military leader offers to reopen talks with protesters

Sudan’s military leader has offered to reopen talks with pro-democracy campaigners, days after paramilitary troops in the capital broke up a two-month(...)

A competitor takes part in the Nile River Festival 2018 on the Nile Special wave in Uganda. A new dam will flood the wave by the end of the year. Photograph: Dan Griffin
Nearly completed dam on White Nile casts a long shadow

Nile Special is unlike any other wave in the world. It forms on a rapid on the upper section of the Nile river in Uganda where the water is warm and t(...)

A stuffed great horned owl
Glucksman Gallery puts zoological curios on display

Walrus tusks, a 19th-century elephant’s tooth and a host of stuffed specimens will form a new exhibition that opens to the public tomorrow at the Lewi(...)

South Sudanese vice-president James Wani Igga holds up a flag the government claims is of the rebel forces loyal to former vice-president Riek Machar, at a press conference in Juba. Photograph: AP Photo/Ben Curtis
South Sudan regime accuses rebels of mobilising forces despite truce offer
  • Africa
  • December 30, 2013, 01:01

South Sudan’s army fought yesterday with the “White Army” ethnic militia, accusing rebels of mobilising the force despite its offer of a truce to end (...)