The White Nile is why Lake Victoria – Africa’s largest lake by area – is often assumed to be the Nile’s main source. That ...

Likewise, the starting point of the Nile is also subject to debate. While it is generally accepted the river begins from Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake by area, the lake itself is fed by ...

How to do it: Jules Verne offers The 600-Mile Nile from £4,595pp, including flights. Check the website for departures with no single supplements. Lake Nasser, the largest man-made lake in the ...

A thriving east African trade in the swim bladder has taken hold of the local communities on the shores of Lake Victoria. It is threatening to make the Nile Perch locally extinct. The fish is a ...

Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on Ethiopia’s stretch of the Nile, a project so large that it promises to set the country on a path to industrialization that could ...

Ludwig calls the Nile the world’s greatest river, and his 619 pages of testimony bear him out. “Its basin contains the biggest lake of the eastern hemisphere, the highest mountains ...