TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MENNA ZAKI IN SUDAN, GRACE MATSIKO IN UGANDA, BASSEM ABOUALABBAS AND SARAH BENHAIDA IN EGYPT
A truck disembarks off a ferry crossing the Blue Nile river in the Jazirah state, some 250 kilometres south of Sudan's captital on September 26, 2022. - The Pharaohs worshipped it as a god, the eternal bringer of life, but the clock is ticking on the Nile. Climate change, pollution and exploitation by man is putting existential unsustainable pressure on the world's second longest river on which millions of Africans depend. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)