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What is one difference between the Congo and the Nile rivers?

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one is in africa and one is in central africa
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Answer:

For more than a century, there's been talk of linking the Congo and Nile rivers to provide Egypt with water, yet successive Egyptian governments have strongly opposed such an undertaking.

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the Nile to the Congo river has always been the lost dream of Egyptians to achieve water security and provide necessary water allocations for the development of projects, be they agricultural or industrial.

The idea was first seriously explored in 1980 during the administration of the late Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat. Sadat sent an expedition to the Congo to prepare a conceptualization of the project. However, the idea had first emerged in 1902, and was mentioned in a book written by

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