The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and...
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The Great Lakes Twa, also known as Batwa (singular Mutwa), Abatwa or Ge-Sera, are a Bantu speaking group native to the African Great Lakes region on the...
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Africa, through the Red Sea, and into Western Asia. Several deep, elongated lakes, called ribbon lakes, exist on the floor of this rift valley: Lake Malawi...
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The African Great Lakes kingdoms refers to the numerous historic kingdoms in the African Great Lakes region. These polities existed sometime between the...
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In the African Great Lakes region, the clan is a unit of social organisation. It is the oldest societal structure in the region, other than family and...
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includes the African Great Lakes in the south. These include some of the world's oldest lakes, deepest lakes, largest lakes by area, and largest lakes by volume...
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The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around the...
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Lakes or Great Lake may also refer to: Great Lakes region, the area near the Great Lakes in the United States and Canada African Great Lakes, a collection...
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Republic of the Congo. It is Africa's seventh-largest lake, as well as the second biggest of Uganda's Great Lakes. Lake Albert is located on the border...
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Australia: Lake Eyre South America: Lake Titicaca Lakes portal List of lakes by area List of lakes by depth List of largest lakes of Europe Although Lake Michigan...
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These articles lists the world's deepest lakes. This list contains all lakes whose maximum depth is reliably known to exceed 400 metres (1,300 ft) Geologically...
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countries in the African Great Lakes region. The organisation consists of the following members: Angola Burundi Central African Republic Republic...
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Station Great Lakes (NAVSTA Great Lakes) is the home of the United States Navy's only current boot camp, located near North Chicago, in Lake County, Illinois...
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The 2023 African Great Lakes floods are floods in April and May 2023 that have killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda...
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Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Notably, the African Great Lakes region overlaps significantly with these countries. Inside of Somalia...
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deepest sounding in Lake Victoria being under 90 m (300 ft). Besides the African Great Lakes, the principal lakes on the continent are: Lake Chad, in the northern...
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Africa, centered on Lake Chad. East African Rift. The region contains Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda. Eastern Rift mountains Rift Valley Lakes African Great...
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Matoke (redirect from East African Highland bananas)
locally in the African Great Lakes region for over a millennium. They are found nowhere else in the world, and the African Great Lakes has been called...
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Tanzania lies in the African Great Lakes region and boasts over 61,500 km2 (23,700 sq mi) of surface area that is covered by lakes. This makes up 6% of...
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Ugali (category South African cuisine)
staple starch featured in the local cuisines of the African Great Lakes region and Southern Africa. When ugali is made from another starch, it is usually...
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of over two million Rwandans to neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Many of the refugees...
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Nigeria was finally outlawed in 1936. With sea trade from the eastern African Great Lakes region to Persia, China, and India during the first millennium AD...
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cladocerans and protozoans. Compared to other large African lakes, Turkana has relatively few fish species. The lake holds about 50 fish species, including 12 endemics:...
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Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda where they...
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state consisting of the eight member states of East African Community in the African Great Lakes region – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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(60–400 m) deep. Rift lakes Landslide and ice dam lakes Salt lakes Oxbow lakes Crater lakes Glacial lakes Subglacial lakes Ancient lake formation is similar...
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East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as...
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Great Lakes Energy is a Solar EPC company founded by Sam Dargan in 2005. The company is headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda and primarily serves the East...
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countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa. The Community Emblem Act, 2003 sets out the symbolism behind the flag. Blue: Lake Victoria signifying...
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haplochromine cichlid fishes in the Great Lakes of the East African Rift (particularly in Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, and Lake Victoria) form the most speciose...
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