EAST Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake, is being secretly drained to keep the lights on in Uganda. A report published this week says Uganda is flouting a 50-year-old ...

Uganda is facing an electricity crisis after the water level in Lake Victoria dropped dramatically. Uganda relies almost exclusively on hydroelectric power, but drought and demand have cut generating ...

Lake Victoria, the world’s second-largest freshwater lake, sustains millions in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Yet its fish stocks are rapidly dwindling, a crisis largely attributed to illegal fishing.

KAMPALA: On the shimmering waters of Lake Victoria, a floating island made from waste drifts gently near the shores of Luzira, a suburb of Uganda’s capital Kampala. The patchwork raft – a mosaic of ...