EDITOR’S NOTE: Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest freshwater lake, is being covertly drained for hydroelectric power according to an article published in the Feb. 11 New Scientist magazine. The report, ...

EAST Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake, is being secretly drained to keep the lights on in Uganda. A report published this week says Uganda is flouting a 50-year-old ...

Straddling three East African countries – Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya – Lake Victoria has for centuries been a vital resource for the millions of people living along its vast coastline. The massive ...

Kampala — Lake Victoria has long been a name to conjure with. The world's second-largest fresh water lake, and the largest in Africa, it stretches out endlessly - rippled by the breeze that ...

UGANDA (eTN) – Bad weather, combined with poor maintenance and the absence of life vests caused a major accident on Lake Victoria, Uganda, last Wednesday with over a dozen reported missing or drowned.

Uganda is facing an electricity crisis after the water level in Lake Victoria dropped dramatically. Uganda relies almost exclusively on hydroelectric power, but drought and demand have cut generating ...

Waste management remains a problem in Uganda. This has caused pollution of the environment including the soil and water. Edwin Nuwagaba looks at how pollution has impacted on Lake Victoria and how ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

EAST Africa’s Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake, is being secretly drained to keep the lights on in Uganda. A report published this week says Uganda is flouting a 50-year-old ...