The Importance of Africa’s Great Lakes Africa’s Great Lakes are a vital resource for millions of people living in the region. They provide water for drinking, agriculture, and industry ...

according to the African Great Lakes Informational platform. It's also estimated to support more 47 million people across East Africa. But concern has grown over the appearance of the spectacular ...

Learn about UNHCR’s work in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

During the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP ... Tanzania remain torn between their commitments in the Great Lakes region and other regional priorities, particularly in East Africa ...

Flooding in Africa’s Great Lakes Region Claims Hundreds of Lives UN says 270 dead, 300 missing, 3,000 families left homeless President declares national day of mourning in Congo on Monday ...

Shared among Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lake Tanganyika is one of Africa’s Great Lakes ... for more than 10 million people who call the region home.

Its members include; Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic ... When we talk about mining in the Great Lakes, many of the people in Zambia think about the Copper Belt, and that's because ...

The heads of the three main UN aid agencies have begun a joint tour of Africa's Great Lakes region designed to highlight its ... DR Congo's recent war cost four million lives and about 1.6 million ...

Rwanda said on Tuesday that 70 white rhinos had been successfully relocated to the Great Lakes nation after a two-day journey ...

The African Great Lakes in Eastern and Southern Africa (Albert ... underpin the welfare and livelihoods of over 50 million people across more than 10 countries. But bodies of fresh water, from ...