Survivor Julius Owithy, ;22, says they left Mwanza's Butujja on a fishing expedition on Lake Victoria on February 9, 2025, with his colleagues identified as Dadi and Zaakayo before the incident ...

Mwanza — LAKE Victoria requires immediate measures to rescue some species of fish now disappearing as a result of intensive illegal fishing that if remains uncontrolled, the future of fishing ...

Lake Victoria – a lifeline for East Africa, sustaining the economies and diets of millions across Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda – is facing an existential crisis - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned in 2018 that 86 out of 234 native fish species in Lake Victoria are now threatened, largely due to pollution and invasive species ...

East Africa's longest bridge has just been completed and it's 1.9 miles long and cost about £193 million to build.The John Magufuli Bridge spans the Mwanza Gulf on the southern shore of Lake ...

Up to 1,500 fishers drown on Lake Victoria every year, an estimated 1,000 of them during bad weather. We identified 141 fisher drowning deaths across 43 landing sites.

Newfound evidence reveals that the upsurge of the exotic Nile perch in Lake Victoria had long-lasting effects on the genetic diversity of various local cichlid species, report scientists. Through ...

Millennium Engineering has created employment opportunities by directly hiring 30 people and aims to scale up its operations to benefit 25,000 people in fishing communities around Lake Victoria. Diana ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --At least 19 people are dead after a plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania early Sunday morning.A commercial aircraft from Precision Air from Dar es Salaam to Bukoba, with a ...

NANCHANG/NAIROBI, March 26 (Xinhua) -- As the largest freshwater lakes in China and Africa, respectively, Poyang Lake and Lake Victoria have witnessed a cross-continental collaboration for ...

The Lake Victoria Basin Commission Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire has expressed concern over increased marine accidents in Lake Victoria. In August last year, more than 30 people were killed in ...