The Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) has announced that preparations are complete for the inaugural Lake Victoria Day celebrations scheduled for May 18-21 in Mwanza, Tanzania, marking a major ...

At Ibrahim Mohammed’s fish stall, business is slow. He’s sitting behind a wooden table piled with a dozen tilapia and Nile perch at the market in Katoro, a roadside town in northern Tanzania. The fish ...

Fish processing on Lake Victoria in Kenya generates tons of waste that harms the environment and leads to oxygen depletion and algal blooms that threaten native aquatic species. Science interns at the ...

Mwanza. Preparations have been completed for the inaugural Lake Victoria Day celebrations, scheduled to take place from May 18 to 21, 2026, in Mwanza.The four-day event will be held at the Nane Nane ...

Small-scale fishers on Lake Victoria (Africa's largest freshwater lake, shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) are drowning. Safety issues such as storms, a lack of available life jackets, and a ...

Some weeks ago, I was browsing the fish counter at Whole Foods when my eye was caught by the legend: “Lake Victoria Perch.” It caught my eye because I, like many, am a sucker for that kind of ...

In recent weeks, water levels in Lake Victoria have reached unprecedented heights as a result of heavy rains in the East African region which started in August 2019. Some say the lake’s levels have ...