Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) has improved Uganda’s water monitoring system with an additional 13 modern digital hydro-meteorological monitoring stations in Lake Victoria and along the River Nile. The stations worth 2.7 Billion Shillings are part of NBI’s initiative to improve transboundary water monitoring systems …
Read More »Five drown as boat capsizes on Lake Victoria
Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five people have drowned on Lake Victoria after the boat they were traveling in capsized. The victims reportedly boarded an overloaded boat from Kirongo landing site heading to Kiyindi landing site on Thursday. They have been identified as Kabenge, the boat operator, Karisimati (a butcher …
Read More »5 dead, 14 rescued from capsized boat in Buvuma
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five bodies of people who drowned in Lake Victoria on January 1, 2024, have been retrieved in Buvuma District. The boat, which was reportedly overloaded with a non specified number of people broke into two pieces and capsized shortly before docking at Zinga Island in …
Read More »Parents charged with negligence after children drowning
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The parents of the children who drowned in Lake Victoria on Christmas have been charged with negligence by the police in Kiira region. The suspects, Hasifah Kasubo, the mother of 12-year-old Fazili Mukungu, and Sofia Nakazibwe, the mother of 10-year-old Aksali Wambede, are both residents …
Read More »Two boys drown in Lake Victoria
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kiira region working with local divers have retrieved the bodies of two boys who reportedly drowned in Lake Victoria, along the Masese landing site pier in Jinja city on Christmas evening. It is reported that the duo had gone swimming along the shoreline. However, …
Read More »Water startup initiates safe water access for Lake Victoria residents
A clever water provision solution built by two local entrepreneurs is providing clean drinking water to thousands of residents at two Lake Victoria beach communities. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | When Odak Onyango and Vallery Adhiambo were growing up along the shores of Lake Victory in western Kenya, clean …
Read More »Bobiwine tasks Govt to end brutality on Lake Victoria
Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP president, Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, has asked the government to withdraw the Uganda People’s Defense Forces- UPDF marine officers from Lake Victoria for allegedly mistreating fishermen. Speaking to his supporters in Mayuge town council Monday, Kyagulanyi asserted that UPDF officers have …
Read More »Opposition challenges govt on water transport safety
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Opposition in Parliament has castigated the government’s lukewarm response to lake week’s boat accident on Lake Victoria which claimed at least 20 lives. Addressing a press conference at Parliament on Tuesday, 08 August 2023, a section of Opposition MPs led by the Shadow …
Read More »Gov’t invisible in effort to recover Kasenyi drown victim’s bodies
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A frantic and resource-limited search is still ongoing to recover the bodies of over twenty people who drowned on Lake Victoria on Tuesday morning. Hordes of relatives have been camping at Kasenyi landing site, desperately hoping to find their loved ones. Ronald Bogere, the chairman …
Read More »12 bodies found after two boats capsize in Lake Victoria
Mwanza, Tanzania | Xinhua | Rescuers have found 12 bodies of the people who went missing after two boats capsized in Lake Victoria in Tanzania Sunday evening, authorities said Wednesday. The two boats were ferrying about 28 people returning to Bulomba village after prayers in a church in Mchigondo village, …
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