Moussoro

Moussoro lies in the bed of the Bahr el Ghazal, an ancient watercourse running northeast from Lake Chad toward the Bodélé depression. The channel supports more vegetation than the surrounding dry country, though water has not always flowed along it. When the army of the Bornu ruler Idris Alaoma passed Moussoro in 1577, the chronicler Ibn Furtu recorded that the Bahr was dry at that point; the fortunes of the channel depended on the changing level of Lake Chad.