Nine years of talks and several fragile agreements over how to share the water of the world's longest river were almost thrown out of the window last week — all because of a bout of heavy rain.

Sudan’s usual rain season takes place annually between June and October. Water levels in the White Nile rise from spring to May and in the Blue Nile from July to September.

Although we usually imagine the conditions in Ancient Egypt to be much like the Egypt of today, back during the Holocene there was significantly more rain as a result of the African Humid Period (A… ...

Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Ati said on Sunday that rainfall over the Nile River’s headwaters is currently below average for the month of July.