The Latest Breaking News from Lake Victoria

Tanzania: Small passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria

A small passenger plane has crashed into Lake Victoria on approach to an airport in Tanzania

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2022

Tanzania plane crash death toll rises to 19: PM

At least 26 rescued after the aircraft plunged into Lake Victoria while attempting to land during stormy weather.

Al Jazeera · Nov 6, 2022

Passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania, 19 dead

At least 19 people died when a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while trying to land at a nearby airport, the prime minister and airline said.

Reuters · Nov 6, 2022

Between Kenya and Uganda, an undecided border (3/4)

Located on Lake Victoria in East Africa, Migingo is the most densely populated island in the world. Covering an area smaller than a football pitch, the tiny island is home to several hundred people from Uganda and Kenya. Both countries have territorial claims on this piece of land located near…

France 24 · Jun 24, 2022

The tale of Lake Victoria's 'Saviour Fish'

On an island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, fishermen are barely eking out a living, where a crisis due to a combination of factors, including climate change and overfishing, has changed the fabric of the community. Journalist Mark Weston spent two years living on Ukerewe Island and wrote The Saviour Fish,…

Radio France Internationale · May 2, 2022

A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2022