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The mouths of the Senegal River and Gambia River are postulated to flow into a lake, which also feeds the "Ger"/"Niger River", which in turn feeds the "Nile Lake" and Nile River. At the end of the African humid period around 5,500 years before present, the modern Sahara Desert, once a savanna , underwent desertification .
Macgregor Laird (1808 – 9 January 1861) was a Scottish merchant pioneer of British trade on the River Niger.Laird's commercial expedition between 1832 and 1834 to navigate the Niger and initiate trade between Europeans and Africans northwards of the coast was considered a failure: the majority of the passengers died and the volume of trade realized was minimal.
Map of Niger. Mud houses on the center island at Lake Debo, a wide section of the Niger River. This is a list of rivers in Niger. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Benue River (French: la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is a major tributary of the Niger River. [2] The size of its catchment basin is 319,000 km 2 (123,000 sq mi). Almost its entire length of approximately 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) is navigable during the summer months.
The mouth of the river is protected by a sand bar, which in 1893 could not be crossed by vessels with more than 16 feet (4.9 m) draft. [9] Akassa creek, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) inland from the mouth of the river, provided a route from the Brass river to the Nun river for vessels of 7 feet (2.1 m) draft.
[citation needed] The Escravos is a distributary of the Niger River, it flows for 57 kilometres (35 mi), ending at the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. [2] [3] Chevron, a major US oil company, has its main Nigerian oil production facility at the mouth of the Escravos River. [4]
Niger's new military ruler lashed out at neighboring countries and the international community in a nationally televised speech Wednesday night, and he called on the population to be ready to ...
The Niger Delta swamp forests ecoregion covers a triangular territory at the mouth of the Niger River.The southern edge is set back about 10 km from the Gulf of Guinea, buffered by the Central African mangroves ecoregion where the effects of salt water are more pronounced.