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2 unusual facts about Lake Tanganyika


Lake Tanganyika

The largest biomass of fish, however, is in the pelagic zone (open waters) and is dominated by six species: two species of "Tanganyika sardine" and four species of predatory Lates (related to, but not the same as, the Nile perch that has devastated Lake Victoria cichlids).

Transport in Burundi

There are a number of systems of transport in Burundi, including road and water-based infrastructure, the latter of which makes use of Lake Tanganyika.


Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika

Charbonnier was stationed at Karema on the east shore of Lake Tanganyika when Captain Léopold Louis Joubert arrived on 22 November 1886, on his way to provide assistance to the station of Mpala on the opposite shore of the lake.

Great North Road, Zambia

In this context, the road from Zambia's border with Zimbabwe at Chirundu to Lusaka is also regarded as being part of the Great North Road, and the portion from Mbala to Mupulungu could be regarded as a spur linking to the Lake Tanganyika steamer service which was popular with travellers up to the 1950s.

Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans

In 1930 Pole-Evans accompanied John Hutchinson and Jan Smuts on a two-month expedition through Southern and Northern Rhodesia to Nyasaland and Lake Tanganyika.

Luapula Province border dispute

Following the 1889 Berlin conference and the ensuing Scramble for Africa by European powers, there was considerable interest by the Belgians, the Germans and the British in Southern and Central Africa to secure the area that covered the 4 Great Lakes namely, Lake Nyasa, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.

National Forces of Liberation

Generally, PALIPEHUTU's support comes more from the central region of Muramvya and Lake Tanganyika, whereas the main Hutu political party CNDD derives its support from the southern Bururi region.

Navy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The 2007 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships states that the Navy is organised into four commands, based at Matadi, near the coast; the capital Kinshasa, further up the Congo river; Kalemie, on Lake Tanganyika; and Goma, on Lake Kivu.

Neolamprologus gracilis

Neolamprologus gracilis is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it is known from Cape Kapampa on the western coast and on the eastern coast from the area of coast below the Mahale Mountains.

Nsumbu National Park

Sumbu National Park (also called Nsumbu) lies on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika near its southern extremity, in Zambia's Northern Province.

Plumed Guineafowl

G. p. schubotzi (Reichenow, 1912) - Schubotz's Plumed Guineafowl - northern Zaire to East African Rift and forests west of Lake Tanganyika

Richard Mohun

In 1899 Mohun was involved in an expedition to lay a telegraph line from Lake Tanganyika to the Nile.

Tim Butcher

In 2007 he published Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, an account of his 2004 journey through DR Congo overland from Lake Tanganyika and down the Congo River, following the route of Henry Morton Stanley's 1874–77 trans-Africa expedition.


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Fabrice Kwizera

He moved back in Bujumbura in 2007, where he continued his secondary studies at Municipal Lycee of Cibitoke, later transferring to Lake Tanganyika Lycee where he got his fist graduate in the faculty of cinematography.

Kapenta

Their major predators are four species of Lates which are also endemic to Lake Tanganyika, and are related to (but not the same as) the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria.

Lukuga River

The river leaves Lake Tanganyika at Kalemie and flows through a gap in the highlands westward through the Tanganyika District to join the Lualaba between Kabalo and Kongolo.

Mweru

Lake Mweru Wantipa - a small lake between Lake Mweru and Lake Tanganyika

Unyamwezi

Unyamwezi lay at a juncture where a trade route from the coast split, with one branch going west to the port of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika while another branch led north to the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro.