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France,Paris. Vincennes. Zoo de Vincennes. Area Sahel Sudan. Baboon on a tree trunk.
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Satellite view of Southern Africa. It shows the African Great Lakes region. This image was compiled from data acquired by Landsat 7 & 8 satellites.
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A heavily-laden bus travels across the Nubian Desert east of the River Nile in Northern Sudan.
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The magnificent desert scenery in the far southwest of the Bayuda Desert has been created by the erosion of sedimentary rock,which in places is highly oxidisedThis desert is an extension of the great Sahara Desert.
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An over-crowded old Bedford bus travels along the main road from Khartoum to Shendi,a centuries old market town on the River Nile.
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Mali,Sirimou. A domestic scene at the Bozo village of Sirimou with the beautiful mud-built Sudan-style mosque rising in the background.
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A fine early Coptic wall mural depicting an angel,which came from the ancient Christian monastery of Faras,founded in 707AD. A team of Polish experts saved the murals from this monastery before the site was submerged by Lake Nasser after the completion of Egypt's Aswan High Dam. A selection of murals now hangs in Sudan's National Museum in Khartoum.
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Three women relax outside a house at Qubbat Selim. This village,situated close to the River Nile in Northern Sudan,still retains much of its traditional architecture,plasterwork and decoration.
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. Dwarfed by minarets,the imam of Kotaka Mosque calls the faithful to prayers from the roof of the mosque.
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A Nubian man rides his camel down one of the main,dusty streets of Qubbat Selim. This village,situated close to the River Nile in Northern Sudan,still retains much of its traditional architecture,plasterwork and decoration.The curved,raised pattern on the walls is made with the serrated edge of a wood trowel or rake.
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A fruit stall in the important market town of Shendi on the River Nile,northeast of Khartoum.
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. Dwarfed by minarets,the imam of Kotaka Mosque calls the faithful to prayers from the roof of the mosque.
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Rocks and boulders in the Nubian Desert. The Nubian Desert in Northeast Sudan is an extension of the Sahara Desert.
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. The mosque at Kotaka,a village on the banks of the Niger River.
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Children ride to school on donkeys along the edge of the Northern or Libyan Desert in northwest Sudan.
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Unity State, South Sudan. The landscape phtographed from the air.
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An attractive Nubian woman in bright clothing,the lower part of her face covered by her headscarf.
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Locals walk past the 5-star Boji Al-Fateh Hotel (Libyan Hotel), designed to represent a sail, Khartoum, Sudan, Africa
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A Nubian girl stand in an archway at the village of Qubbat Selim. Traditional Nubian architecture. Traditional Nubian architecture and plasterwork of a fine archway to a house and its courtyard at Qubbat Selim.
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Wooden gaming board (houri) and dried beads, Maridi village, Sudan, Africa
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Mali,Timbuktu. Two Tuareg men chat outside the 14th century Djingareiber Mosque - the Great Mosque - at Timbuktu.
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The pyramids of Meroe, Sudan's most popular tourist attraction, Bagrawiyah, Sudan, Africa
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A Nubian woman, her face covered by her headscarf to denote her Muslim belief, stands outside the verandah of her home.The style of verandah arch is typical of the Nubian people.
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Sudan. A ghoulish scarecrow fashioned from a mummified donkey head stands on the road to the Nile's Sixth Cateract.
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Mali,Senossa. A Peul woman with skeins of cotton yarn prepared from the long lengths she and others had spun round the walls of their home. Mali is Africa's second largest cotton producer.
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Camel traders drive camels through the southeast edge of the Northern or Libyan Desert,which forms a part of the Sahara Desert.Traders are accustomed to buying camels at Darfur in Western Sudan and drive them on an age-old route to a camel market in Southern Egypt,which takes them forty days.
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Traditional Nubian architecture,plasterwork and decoration of the doorways and compounds to houses at Qubbat Selim.
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Mali,Senossa. A Peul man enters the beautiful mud-built Sudan-style mosque at Senossa,a short distance from Djenne .
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A Nubian man squats beside an old water container at an oasis in the Nubian Desert north of Old Dongola.
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. An old man makes his way to Kotaka Mosque carrying a plastic teapot containing water for washing his feet before praying.
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. The minarets of Kotaka Mosque. This large mosque dominates Kotaka village situated on the banks of the Niger River.
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The pyramids of Meroe, Sudan's most popular tourist attraction, Bagrawiyah, Sudan, Africa
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. An attractive mosque built in Sudan-style architecture at a small village on the banks of the Niger River north of Mopti.
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Sudan, South of Wadi Halfa. A 4x4 makes its way across the dirt roads in Northern Sudan.
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The pyramids of Meroe, Sudan's most popular tourist attraction, Bagrawiyah, Sudan, Africa
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Sudan, Nagaa. The solitary guide at the remote ruins of Nagaa walks through the ruins.
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The Khatmiyah mosque at the base of the Taka Mountains, Kassala, Sudan, Africa
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A Nubian man and his camel at an oasis in the Nubian Desert north of Old Dongola.
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An old entrance door to the 14th century Djingareiber Mosque - the Great Mosque - at Timbuktu.
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Mali,Timbuktu. The 14th century Djingareiber Mosque - the Great Mosque - at Timbuktu.
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. The imam of Kotaka pauses beside an archway inside the impressive Sudan-style mosque which dominates Kotaka village on the banks of the Niger River.
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In the late afternoon,men draw water from a deep well at Naga,situated beside an important wadi some 30 km from the Nile. The large leather buckets are raised to the surface on pulleys using donkeys or camels.
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White Nile, Sudan, True Colour Satellite Image. White Nile, Sudan, true colour satellite image. Agriculture in a desertic area, on the plain of Jazira in Sudan, along the White Nile. Image taken on 21 February 2000 using LANDSAT data.
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Traditional Nubian architecture and plasterwork of a fine doorway into the courtyard of a house at Qubbat Selim. This village,situated close to the River Nile in Northern Sudan,still retains much of its traditional architecture,plasterwork and decoration.
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A Nubian man wearing a white turban smiles broadly at his friend.
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Magnificent desert scenery in the Nubian Desert of northeast Sudan has been created by the erosion of sedimentary rock,which in places is highly oxidised. This desert is an extension of the great Sahara Desert.
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The Khatmiyah mosque at the base of the Taka Mountains, Kassala, Sudan, Africa
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The pyramids at Jebel Barkal, used by Napatan Kings during the 3rd century BC, Karima, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sudan, Africa
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Grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrynchos), Red Sea, Sudan, Africa
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Traditional Nubian architecture,plasterwork and decoration of the doorways and compounds to houses at Qubbat Selim.
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Sudan, Nagaa. The solitary guide at the remote ruins of Nagaa stands in front of the ruins.
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France,Paris. Vincennes. Zoo de Vincennes. Area Sahel Sudan. Giraffes.
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Between 400BC and 300BC,the ancient pyramids at Jebel Barkal were used as the burial grounds of the Pharaohs,or Kings,of the Kingdom of Cush. They came into use about the time Nuri came under pressure from Egypt but before the capital of the Kingdom was moved to Meroe.
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Temple 100 in the Great Enclosure at Musawwarat es Sufra, Sudan, Africa
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At the foot of Jebel Barkal Mountain,a man leads his camel laden with dried date palm fronds to his home where they will be used as wind-breaks.
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The Northern or Libyan Desert in northwest Sudan is an easterly extension of the great Sahara Desert. The erosion of sedimentary rock has created a truly magnificent desert landscape.
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Funeral mound next to church in village near Maradi, Sudan, Africa
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A man on mule-back traverses the desert around the ancient city of Old Dongola, Sudan, Africa
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A Nubian boatman on his felucca,a wooden sailing boat that plies the waters of the River Nile in Egypt and The Sudan.
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In late afternoon light,a camel rider crosses a desert near the ancient pyramids of Meroe,east of the Nile.
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A Nubian man displays his sword at an oasis in the Nubian Desert north of Old Dongola.
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The Northern or Libyan Desert in northwest Sudan is an easterly extension of the great Sahara Desert. The erosion of sedimentary rock has created a truly magnificent desert landscape.
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As the sun goes down after a blistering day,an old man rides home on his donkey.
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Situated a short distance east of the Nile, the ancient pyramids of Meroe are an important burial ground of thirty kings, eight queens and three princes of the Kingdom of Cush who reigned during the Afro Egyptian Meroitic period roughly between 300BC and 300AD.
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A Nubian woman, her face covered by her headscarf to denote her Muslim belief, stands outside the verandah of her home.The style of verandah arch is typical of the Nubian people.
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