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Merowe, Sudan
Merowe is a town on the Nile in northern Sudan, near the fourth cataract and the ancient sites of Napata and Jebel Barkal. It lay in the land of the Shaigiya tribes. The Merowe Dam, completed upstream in 2009, is one of the largest hydroelectric projects in Africa.
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