Niger River Niger River The Niger River (; , ) is the principal river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea. It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta or the Oil Rivers, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. The Niger is the third-longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the Congo River (also known as the Zaïre River). Its main tributary
The Blue Nile for the Irish music presenter Uaneen Fitzsimons, following her death in a car crash. A remixed version of their single "Tinseltown in the Rain" was used as the theme song for the BBC Scotland TV series "Tinsel Town", broadcast in 2000 and 2001. After the longest period yet between albums, the Blue Nile released "High" in August 2004. Part of the lengthy delay in making the record was due to Paul Buchanan contracting a form of chronic fatigue syndrome which affected his health for two years, but as he explained on the album's release, it was mostly a result of