This river receives its largest tributary at Lokoja, a former national capital and iron mining center.
This river receives its largest tributary at Lokoja, a former national capital and iron mining center. The delta of this river is home to the Ijaw people, the victims of the 1999 Odi Massacre, and to the Ogoni people, who were repressed in the 1990s when they organized massive protests against Royal Dutch Shell. The Cross River State lies east of this river, while the capital of Rivers State in this river's delta region is Port Harcourt. Rising in the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea, it flows south of Timbuktu and is joined by the Benue before it empties into the Gulf of Guinea. For 10 points, name this third-longest river of Africa, the namesake of a country whose capital is Niamey.
This river receives its largest tributary at Lokoja, a former national capital and iron mining center.
{Niger} River