The Dinka inhabit a vast region in the south of the Sudan that forms a seasonal swampland when the Nile River floods. |
However to the West of the estate lies an expanse of waste ground and swampland which very nearly cost the life of a young boy from the estate. |
It was a large, indoor school that sat upon a sandy island surrounded by marshy swampland. |
At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer. |
Elvis lives with his unemployed, alcoholic father in a swampland slum where even a trip to the local watering hole is tinged with danger. |
At present it is little more than a swampland, with pools of standing water, rubble, mounds of earth and stone and other building waste. |