Sobat

It was during this period only when another Sangh activist Bal Gangal, wrote a series of articles castigating Mahatma Phule in a Hindutva centred weekly called 'Sobat'.

Kafila 2009

But it turns out there is seasonal whitewater in Southern Sudan on the Sobat, and that can make this as appealing as the Omo River, on the Ethiopia side, which has attracted thousands of rafters.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

What taunted, most, however, was that the beautiful Baro river just downstream changed its name to the Sobat, as it entered Southern Sudan on its way to the White Nile, and nobody had rafted this section of the river.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

But it turns out there is seasonal whitewater in Southern Sudan on the Sobat, and that can make this as appealing as the Omo River, on the Ethiopia side, which has attracted thousands of rafters.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

What taunted, most, however, was that the beautiful Baro river just downstream changed its name to the Sobat, as it entered Southern Sudan on its way to the White Nile, and nobody had rafted this section of the river.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

What taunted, most, however, was that the beautiful Baro river just downstream changed its name to the Sobat, as it entered Southern Sudan on its way to the White Nile, and nobody had rafted this section of the river.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

But it turns out there is seasonal whitewater in Southern Sudan on the Sobat, and that can make this as appealing as the Omo River, on the Ethiopia side, which has attracted thousands of rafters.

Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

In Upper Nile state, near Jonglei state's northern border, Dinka raiders have attacked several Shilluk settlements near the junction of the White Nile and Sobat rivers in the past month, displacing Shilluk populations north towards the already tense town of Malakal.

John Prendergast: Field Dispatch: Jonglei, Southern Sudan 2009

The Chazal, Sudd, and Sobat swamps in the south of the country represent major wetlands, from which evaporation is exceptionally high.

Water profile of Sudan 2008

Conversely, Equatoria had a northern border six hundred miles south of Khartoum, where the Sobat and Gazelle rivers met the White Nile, and a southern border somewhere near Lake Victoria; but its eastern or western borders could stretch as far as the Indian or Atlantic oceans.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007