A report on Kenya, Tanzania and Lake Victoria

Victoria Nyanza. The black line indicates Stanley's route.

The Turkana boy, a 1.6-million-year-old hominid fossil belonging to Homo erectus.

A 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool discovered at Olduvai Gorge and on display at the British Museum.

A traditional Swahili carved wooden door in Lamu.

Portuguese presence in Kenya lasted from 1498 until 1730. Mombasa was under Portuguese rule from 1593 to 1698 and again from 1728 to 1729.

A 1572 depiction of the portuguese city of Kilwa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Unlike many other Lake Victoria cichlids, Haplochromis nyererei remains common. Compared to several other cichlids, its eyes are particularly sensitive to light, especially red, which is less affected by the decrease in water clarity caused by eutrophication than short wavelength colors

Haplochromis thereuterion survives in low numbers. Initially feared extinct, when rediscovered it had changed habitat (from near surface to rocky outcrops) and feeding behavior (from surface insects to insect larvae)

The Kenya–Uganda Railway near Mombasa, about 1899.

Battle during the Maji Maji Rebellion against German colonial rule in 1905.

Fishers and their boats on the shore of Lake Victoria

A statue of Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader with the Mau Mau who fought against the British colonial system in the 1950s.

The Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria for fishing, and can reach up to 2 m and 200 kg.

The first president and founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.

A hyacinth-choked lakeshore at Ndere Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya.

Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's second President, and George W. Bush, 2001

Tanzania map of Köppen climate classification

The Masai giraffe is Tanzania's national animal

The semi-autonomous Zanzibar Archipelago

The lake as it is visible from the shores of the Speke Resort in Kampala, Uganda

A Köppen climate classification map of Kenya.

The Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station in Njeru, Uganda.

Tanzanian ambassador to Russia Jaka Mwambi presenting his credentials to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

Tanzanian Embassy in West End, Washington, D.C., USA

President Barack Obama in Nairobi, July 2015

FIB Tanzanian special forces during training

A proportional representation of Tanzania exports, 2019

Historical development of real GDP per capita in Tanzania, since 1950

A proportional representation of Kenya exports, 2019

Kenya, Trends in the Human Development Index 1970–2010.

Nyerere Bridge in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam

Domestic expenditure on research in Southern Africa as a percentage of GDP, 2012 or closest year. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 20.3

The Kenya Commercial Bank office at KENCOM House (right) in Nairobi.

A Tanzanian woman cooks Pilau rice dish wearing traditional Kanga.

Workers at Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant

Farmers using a rice harvester to harvest rice in Igunga District, Tanzania

Example of a World Food Programme parcel

Researchers (HC) in Southern Africa per million inhabitants, 2013 or closest year

Scientific publications per million inhabitants in SADC countries in 2014. Source: UNESCO Science Report (2015), data from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded

Maasai people. The Maasai live in both Kenya and Tanzania.

A carved door with Arabic calligraphy in Zanzibar

A Bantu Kikuyu woman in traditional attire

Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam

Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Cathedral in Mombasa.

Outpatient Department of AIC Kapsowar Hospital in Kapsowar.

Table showing different grades of clinical officers, medical officers, and medical practitioners in Kenya's public service

Judith Wambura (Lady Jaydee) is a popular Bongo Flava recording singer.

An MSc student at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.

St Joseph's Catholic cathedral, Zanzibar

Kenyan boys and girls performing a traditional dance

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha

Nation Media House, which hosts the Nation Media Group

East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha

Jepkosgei Kipyego and Jepkemoi Cheruiyot at the 2012 London Olympics

Kenyan Olympic and world record holder in the 800 meters, David Rudisha.

Ugali and sukuma wiki, staples of Kenyan cuisine

It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

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Kisumu City is the third-largest city and also an inland port on Lake Victoria.

- Kenya

The lake's area is divided among three countries: Kenya occupies 6% (4,100 km2), Uganda 45% (31,000 km2), and Tanzania 49% (33,700 km2).

- Lake Victoria

Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, and the Indian Ocean to the southeast.

- Kenya

These movements took place at about the same time as the settlement of the Mashariki Bantu from West Africa in the Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika areas.

- Tanzania

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Uganda

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Landlocked country in East Africa.

A caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, in the Empire of Kitara (present-day Uganda) as observed by medical missionary Robert William Felkin in 1879. This incident was recorded long before the arrival of the European missionary doctors and clinics. The kingdom performed a highly developed surgical procedure, the first-ever cesarean section technique that saved both the mother and child.

Construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja.

The Uganda printers building on Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda

Grey Crowned Crane - a symbol of Uganda.

Belligerents of the Second Congo War. On 19 December 2005, the International Court of Justice found against Uganda, in a case brought by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for illegal invasion of its territory, and violation of human rights.

Uganda map of Köppen climate classification.

U.S. President George W. Bush met with President Yoweri Museveni in Entebbe, Uganda, 11 July 2003.

Protests in New York City against Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

Graphical depiction of Uganda's product exports in 28 color-coded categories.

Change in per capita GDP of Uganda, 1950–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars.

Mobile operators offer money sending, receiving services, bill payments among many more services.

Cultural celebrations in Northern Uganda

Saint Mary's Cathedral Rubaga, is the parent cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala.

The country is bordered to the East by Kenya, to the North by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania.

The Southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania.

African Great Lakes

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The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu, Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.

The African Great Lakes system, in blue.

Map of larger region including the East African Rift and the entire so-called Great Rift Valley

They include Lake Victoria, the second-largest fresh water lake in the world by area, Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth, and Lake Malawi, the world's eighth-largest fresh water lake by area.

Riparian countries in the African Great Lakes region include: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania, and Uganda.