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Atbara

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At·ba·ra  (tbr-, ät-)
A river of northeast Africa rising in northwest Ethiopia and flowing about 805 km (500 mi) to the Nile River in eastern Sudan.

Atbara [ˈætbərə ætˈbɑː-]
n
1. (Placename) a town in NE Sudan. Pop.: 73 000 (latest est.)
2. (Placename) a river in NE Africa, rising in N Ethiopia and flowing through E Sudan to the Nile at Atbara. Length: over 800 km (500 miles)


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Dr Sexon lived at Atbara in North Sudan for three years and worked on the concept of a river turbine.
They were part of a larger group of four boats crossing the Atbara river at night to evade police checkpoints in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The guide's first half explains the country's historical context, the second half describes the country from the confluence of the Niles at Khartoum, the pyramids of the Nubian desert; the frontier settlement of Wadi Halfa, the railhead town of Atbara, the Red Sea's pristine dive sites, the world's Gum Arabic capital El Obeid, the sugarloaf Taka mountains near Kassala, and the fertile Nuba Mountains.
 
 
 
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