Dagaa, or small sardine fish, laid out to dry on tarps and raised drying racks in Katonga, a fishing village in northwestern Tanzania [Tristan Bove/Al Jazeera] Lake Tanganyika is Africa’s ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

A terrorizing presence since the 1980s, Gustave has lurked in the shadows for well over a decade. Now, a herpetologist dives ...

In old maps of Africa dating back to the 1950s and 1960s, Lake Chad was a conspicuous presence, nearly as conspicuous on African maps as Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika and Malawi. I was reading recently ...

Rebels advanced on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east Friday as the UN Security Council for the first time called on ...

“It must be God’s plan.” Lake Tanganyika is Africa’s longest reservoir of fresh water and a lifeblood for the millions who live near it. But in recent years, fish catches have declined sharpl ...

The M23 is now moving towards the town of Uvira near the Burundi border on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika -- the main exit route for fleeing Congolese soldiers. Around 42,000 people have ...

Boxes of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) at the MANA Nutrition Factory in Fitzgerald, Georgia where they are being ...

KEY investors in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project expected to lower the price of natural gas locally have stressed the ...

I am an American, doctoring in this central African nation ... I looked across Lake Tanganyika to the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is a war going on there, with thousands dying so that ...

The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation ... Rwanda denies backing the rebels. Map locates Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda.