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 ...

Up to 1,500 fishers drown on Lake Victoria every year, an estimated 1,000 of them during bad weather. We identified 141 fisher drowning deaths across 43 landing sites.

Lake Victoria is the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in Africa. The volume of the lake is mind-boggling, about three quadrillion (3,000,000,000,000,000 ...