The lake's shoreline stretches over 2,000 miles and it is home to around 1,000 islands, some of which are inhabited.

Lake Victoria is not only a beautiful landmark, it’s also very economically important for the surrounding area. There are ...

New research from Africa's Lake Victoria has revealed critical clues about toxic algal blooms and their potential impact on Lake Erie and beyond.

“In an area prone to drought ... Leo Ogalo notes that massive siltation and huge soil erosion deposited in Lake Victoria raises its water and soils its freshwater’s health.

Lake Victoria, the world’s second-largest freshwater lake by surface area, is a vital resource for over 47 million people across five countries—Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda—that share ...

East Africa Marine Transport (EAMT) has commissioned Lake Victoria’s first scheduled roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) freight vessel, ...

No one's sure how the South American water hyacinth invaded Africa's Lake Victoria but there's little doubt as to the damages it has caused. In 1989, the weed was spotted in the lake and seven ...

The Winam Gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria, a gulf with similar limnological ... the synthetic capability of cyanobacterial blooms in an area plagued by year-round bloom events.

A buffer zone is an area of land designated for environmental ... that stretch through the buffer zones on the shores of Lake Victoria on Nambi Road, but some owners have since reconstructed ...

It’s a project that could kill two birds with one stone. It could, one, improve the water quality of Wasserman Lake, and two, create an attractive family-friendly waterfront park in the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Police officers remove the body of a fisherman, William Juma, who drowned in Lake Victoria ...