Sambaza fish dry on racks in the sun at a fish-drying cooperative in Kibuye, Rwanda, June 1, 2018. Traditionally men's work, some women on Lake Kivu have joined fishing cooperatives, contributing ...

Water users who currently hold permits for various activities in five Rwandan lakes will be required to relocate as the new master plan for the waterbodies designates their current location for other ...

Lake Kivu’s eruption would be catastrophic. “ [The lake] would release the equivalent of 2-6 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a day,” Morkel says.

Lake Kivu is a giant body of water that is so saturated with carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane at its depths it could explode without warning. Two other lakes in Africa have a similarly deadly ...

The other two lakes have both already exploded — Lake Nyos in 1986 and Lake Monoun in 1984, both in Cameroon — killing thousands of people and animals. Lake Kivu has yet to erupt — and the Rwandan ...

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has issued a stern warning against the encroachment of Lake Kivu's protected buffer zone, following recent cases of businesses illegally ...