Sudd

Moreover, the river is absolutely blocked by the accumulation of the Papyrus weed, known as Sudd, the

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

Felucca tours on the White Nile are quite appealing, and there are airboat tours of the Sudd, sometimes called "Lake No," as it is choked with carpets of water hyacinth, making Nile navigation a no go.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

Felucca tours on the White Nile are quite appealing, and there are airboat tours of the Sudd, sometimes called "Lake No," as it is choked with carpets of water hyacinth, making Nile navigation a no go.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

Unlike much of the arid north, South Sudan is a rich and fertile place, where the Nile spreads into a verdant and teeming swamp, the Sudd, which serves as both geographical and metaphorical border between the two newly-formed states.

Jake Townsend: Country: Know Thyself Jake Townsend 2011

The vast Sudd swamp, one of the world's largest wetlands, comprises more than 15 percent of the landlocked nation, which is extremely underdeveloped after years of war and neglect.

South Sudan planning to move its capital from Juba Reuters 2011

In the southern Sudanese town of Juba, Schon cooked up his last plates of oily spaghetti and came clean about not wanting to go on, especially since "on" was into the "malarial tinderbox" of the Sudd swampland, where "the war wasn't quite finished in Upper Nile state -- antagonistic militias stewed in camps while their leaders grappled for political power."

Review of "The Black Nile," by Dan Morrison Tahir Shah 2010

Felucca tours on the White Nile are quite appealing, and there are airboat tours of the Sudd, sometimes called "Lake No," as it is choked with carpets of water hyacinth, making Nile navigation a no go.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

In the southern Sudanese town of Juba, Schon cooked up his last plates of oily spaghetti and came clean about not wanting to go on, especially since "on" was into the "malarial tinderbox" of the Sudd swampland, where "the war wasn't quite finished in Upper Nile state -- antagonistic militias stewed in camps while their leaders grappled for political power."

Review of "The Black Nile," by Dan Morrison Tahir Shah 2010

His quest, he says, is to bind together and make better sense of a region mostly known for its many dead ends the ancient land of the Nubians steadily being submerged behind dams, or the vast, mysteriously burning Sudanese swamps of the Sudd.

Longest River, Wide Adventure 2010

This ecoregion lies south of the Sahel in central and eastern Africa, and is divided into a western block and an eastern block by the Sudd swamps in the Saharan Flooded Grasslands ecoregion.

East Sudanian savanna 2009