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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of western Africa rising in Cameroon and flowing about 1,080 km (670 mi) to the Niger River in central Nigeria.
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Entering the river in July, they ascended the southern branch, now known as the Benue, for a distance of seven hundred miles from the sea, reaching Adamawa, a Mahometan state of the Soudan.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Note 6: Both Akan and proto-Bantu derive from the Benue-Kwa period.
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Like the Benue, nearly the whole of the cluster is in Nigeria.
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The Benue cluster is one of the most complicated in West Africa.
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Benue State in Nigeria has been racked by tribal violence.
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A Nigerian electoral tribunal in central Benue state Saturday voided the election of federal senate president David Mark, local government spokesman Cletus Akwaya said.
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Some streams flow northeast to Kano and Lake Chad, east to the Gongola River (which enters the Benue), south to the Benue, and west ot the Kaduna River which feeds into the Niger River.
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The most important rivers in the basin are the Niger and its tributaries Benue, Sokoto, and Kaduna.
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Nigeria8,600 km (Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks) (2007)
Waterways 2008
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Waterways: 8,600 km (Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks) (2007)
Nigeria 2008
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