Kisumu county has received a major boost in its efforts to modernise the fishing industry and enhance safety on Lake Victoria following the handover of six fiberglass boats by Kenya Shipyards Limited ...

Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya. Located right by the shore of the Lake Victoria, it makes for one of the main weekend getaways spots. Travel specialists from Jovago.com - Africa's ...

Every year, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania earn millions of euros every year in fishing exports from Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake. But the lake does more than just supply fish - it ...

In Entebbe, on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria, fish are also dying, January 2021. ABUBAKER LUBOWA / REUTERS. The smell of rotting fish hangs over the town of Kisumu in eastern Kenya.

KISUMU, Kenya — It is a little past 5 p.m. at the lakeside city of Kisumu, in the western part of Kenya. An hour later, the sun sets over the sprawling Lake Victoria as far as the eye can see.

I first heard of the tradition of fishing by lantern while working as a consultant for nongovernmental organizations in Kisumu, Kenya. While Kisumu is also on the shore of Lake Victoria, it takes ...

Beginning in 2019, devastating floods on the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria have inundated homes, displaced families and left some orphaned children in charge of caring for their siblings and ...

The Winam Gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria, a gulf with similar limnological properties and therefore could potentially be a model for Lake Erie in a warming climate, experiences harmful algal blooms ...

Residents of Kamwanda Village, Osiri Sub-Location of Kisumu County, are living in fear following frequent crocodiles attacks in Lake Victoria. The latest attack was the killing of a 13-year-old ...

To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya's ...

Research on Kenya's Lake Victoria's Winam Gulf, a potential model for Lake Erie, reveals year-round harmful algal blooms dominated by cyanobacteria like Dolichospermum, Microcystis, and Planktothrix.