Lake Victoria: The blessing killing East Africans in numbers

Upturned MV Nyerere ferry that killed over 200 people in Tanzania. [Photo: Courtesy]

Tanzania is on a mourning mood. Reeling from the shock of losing more than 200 lives when MV Nyerere overturned, sunk with over 300 people aboard. Tears are yet to dry and search for more bodies is still ongoing in Ukara Island, Mwanza Province.

This is the grim aspect of world’s second largest fresh water lake. In January 17, 2013, CNN covered a story that described the darker shade of Lake Victoria.