{"id":13913,"date":"2025-10-02T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:02:15","slug":"niger-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/niger-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Niger River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An accident involving a boat carrying passengers on the Niger River in north-central Nigeria has killed at least 26 people recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Niger River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> principal river of western Africa.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a length of <\/span><b>4,200 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is the <\/span><b>third longest river in Africa, after the Nile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Congo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>In West Africa, it\u2019s the longest and largest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> river and is <\/span><b>nicknamed the \u201cBoomerang<\/b> <b>River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d due to its <\/span><b>serpentine shape.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It takes one of the most unusual routes of any major river.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>rises in Guinea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, just <\/span><b>240 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n, but the<\/span><b> river runs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">away from the sea <\/span><b>into the Sahara Desert.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It then<\/span><b> takes a sharp right turn near Mali\u2019s Timbuktu city.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through <\/span><b>Mali, Niger, Benin, and Nigeria<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>empties into the Atlantic Ocean via the Niger Delta.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Niger Delta:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in <\/span><b>southern Nigeria<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where the <\/span><b>Niger River meets the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Guinea).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>largest river delta in Africa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and features the <\/span><b>fifth largest mangrove forest on Earth.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Niger <\/span><b>passes through virtually all of the vegetational zones of western Africa, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including grasslands, rainforests, and swamps.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Niger River Basin covers 7.5 percent of the African continent, and its <\/span><b>main tributary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the<\/span><b> Benue River.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>northern part <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the river, known as the<\/span><b> Niger Bend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is an important area because it is the<\/span><b> closest major river and source of water to the Sahara desert.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> Niger Valley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is s<\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">parsely settled.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">largest cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Bamako in Mali, Niamey in Niger, and Onitsha in Nigeria.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/26-killed-in-boat-disaster-on-nigeria-s-niger-river-101759332529776-amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger River, with a length of 4,200 km, it is the third longest river in Africa, after the Nile and the Congo. 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