The Sudd wetlands (red) and the aborted Jonglei Canal project (green) in South Sudan.
The Jonglei Canal was a canal project started, but never completed, to divert water from the vast Sudd wetlands of South Sudan so as to deliver more water downstream to Sudan and Egypt for use in agriculture. Sir William Garstin proposed the idea of the canal in 1907; the government of Egypt conducted a study in 1946; and plans took shape between 1954 and 1959 during the period of decolonization which included Sudanese independence in 1956. Against the context of Sudan's postcolonial civil conflict, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), led by John Garang, halted construction of the canal in 1984.
The dispute over the Jonglei Canal, and access to Nile waters,[1] added a significant environmental dimension to the post-1983, second Sudanese civil war, in which disputes over the religious, linguistic, and cultural elements of Sudanese national identity also played prominent roles.[2][3][4]
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^Collins, Robert O. (1990). The waters of the Nile : hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-821784-6. OCLC 20592970.
^Woodward, Peter (1990). Sudan, 1898-1989 : the unstable state. Thomas Leiper Kane Collection. Boulder: L. Rienner Publishers. ISBN 1-55587-193-3. OCLC 20318707.
^Lesch, Ann (1998). The Sudan: Contested National Identities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253334322.
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Port Sudan, and began excavation in the South for the JongleiCanal, also seen as Junqali Canal. In early 1977, the government published the Six-Year...
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for Sudd wetlands in response of the governments resumption of the Jongleicanal project despite elites opposing it. The professor has been accused of...
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Collins, R. O. (1990). The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the JongleiCanal, 1900-1988. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 1-55876-099-7. Collins, R...
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1080/07900629308722581. ISSN 0790-0627. Yahia Abdel Mageed (1984). The Jongleicanal: A conservation project of the Nile. International Journal of Water...
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the northeast, Eastern Nile to the east, Eastern Bieh to the southeast, Jonglei to the south, Southern Liech to the southwest, and Northern Liech to the...
giving licences to Greek merchants, who would go to remote places like Jonglei, rather than to northern Sudanese Jellaba traders. Juba, now the national...
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