The chokehold of plastic is tightening around Africa's largest lake. Lake Victoria is bordered by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

GEITA: RUBONDO Island National Park is one of two Tanzanian national parks located on an island in Lake Victoria, the other ...

The WW1 battle for control over Central Africa and access to the region’s vast natural resources pitted Germany’s Kaiserliche Marine against Britain’s Royal Navy in one of the war’s most unusual ...

BARAKA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 7 (UNHCR) - A UNHCR-chartered ferry carrying 488 Congolese refugees crossed Lake Tanganyika and docked here in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to ...

Aquaculture—the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms—is the world's fastest-growing food production system.

Africa’s freshwater fish are on the decline, according to a recent report by the World Wide Fund for Nature. In Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, fish catches have dropped sharply as pollution, ...

AFTER you travel away from shore on a speedboat for about 40 minutes, Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in Africa, feels like the open sea. Yet parts of the Ghanaian lake are actually a giant fish ...