Shoebill birds can reach a height of five feet, but the prehistoric-looking creatures generally aren't taller than people.

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...