Jelal is a Nubian, one of the people who lived in southernmost Egypt and northern Sudan until the 1960s, when the Aswan High Dam flooded their land.

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The area is currently populated by over 20 million people and is challenged by deforestation, agriculture, mining, a governmental dam building spree, illegal land speculation including the occupation of forest reserves and indigenous land and other issues.

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In response, the government launched an air, sea and land operation to capture the dam.

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The dam would also make sure that the land did not drain too much in normal conditions, all of which Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust had not objected to.

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