Rosso is a border community between Senegal and Mauritania, on the banks of the Senegal River. - Senegal - 1969

In Rosso, on the Senegal River on the border between Mauritania and the Senegalese state, the camel, the "desert ship", and the pirogue, the river boat, meet. - Senegal - 1969

Sunset over the Niger River near Kabara, Mali. A 13-kilometre-long artificial canal connected Kabara with Timbuktu since the 17th century. The canal was used by pirogues and sailing ships. It served to transport people and goods and connected Timbuktu with the Niger. This canal dried up again and again in modern times and is now silted up and only visible as a ditch in some places. - Mali - 1969

A herd of dromedaries refreshes itself in the Niger River - Kabara - Mali - 1969

Pier of the pirogues on the river Niger - Kabara - Mali - 1969

A fisherman with his pirogue on the Niger River in the Mopti area. - Mali - 1969

Near Mopti - Boats on the Niger River - Mali - 1969

The port of Mopti on the Niger River. Mopti is particularly characterised by trade and crafts. The city is a trading centre for fish, cattle and grain. Important crafts are weaving, iron and leather processing, pottery and boat building (pinasses up to 50 tons). - Mali - 1969

A transport boat on the Niger River near Gao - Mali - 1969

The cattle quench their thirst in the river Chari - Chad - 1967

Fishermen sell their catch on the banks of the Chari - Chad - 1967

There are waterholes that dry up only a few weeks before each rainy season. And yet ... after a sharp bend in the track, a river appears, a real river with much deep water, which nothing has foreseen: The Chari is barely indicated by the vegetation of its banks ... - Chad - 1967

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