This 26-hour slog from Atbara in the north to the capital Khartoum, which previously took merely four hours, was the latest in a series of my "Odysseys" in Sudan, which altogether redefined travel in ...

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It is a seasonal flowing river and is strong in its summer flood and the colour of its waters is dark due to the plentiful sediments in it. Hence, it is called Atbara which means the black.