Africa's beautiful lakes not only serve as key sources of water, food and transportation, but also act as borders—both ...

But colleagues and I have uncovered worrying trends in the salty and highly-alkaline "soda lakes" of east Africa where most of these birds live. Lesser flamingos are the most numerous of the six ...

The East African Community (EAC), in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ...

One of these is found in Malawi, a country often referred to as "Africa’s friendliest nation". Lake Malawi, one of the deepest lakes in the world, stretches over 350 miles between Malawi ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. An almost picturesque lake in Rwanda is actually home to a massive concentration of ...

fully controlled the east of Africa’s second-largest country. Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries ...