Great Lakes (Africa)
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- Work cat.: 2005327136: Mukwaya, A.K.K. Uganda: riding the political tiger, security & wars in the Greater Lakes Region, 2004:p. v (Great Lakes Region refers to crises-prone Central and East and the Horn of African regions in which the major, persistent and obvious actors are Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
- Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World electronic database, June 28, 2005:(The great lakes in the system are Victoria, Albert, Edward, Kivu, Tanganyika, Mweru, and Malawi... "The 'Great Lakes Region' is conventionally restricted to the core of the region, whose members are Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania."
- Wikipedia, June 28, 2005:(The Great Lakes are Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoira, Lake Albert, Lake Edward, and Lake Kivu. Some call only Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, and Lake Edward the Great Lakes, as they are the only three that empty into the Nile.)
- CRS Web, June 28, 2005:CRS reports (Africa's Great Lakes Region: Current conditions in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda)
- East African Rift Valley lakes, c2006:p. 9 ("The East African Rift Valley Lakes runs from the northern end of Lake Turkana Basin to the southern tip of the Lake Malawi/Nyasa Basin ... The main lakes include Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi, Turkana, Albert, Edward, George, and Kivu. All are tropical and together comprise the African Great Lakes ecoregion.")
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 around the East African Rift. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth; Lake Malawi, the world's eighth-largest freshwater lake by area; and Lake Turkana, the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. Collectively, they contain 31,000 km3 (7,400 cu mi) of water, which is more than either Lake Baikal or the North American Great Lakes. This total constitutes about 25% of the planet's unfrozen surface fresh water. The large rift lakes of Africa are the ancient home of great biodiversity, and 10% of the world's fish species live in this region. Countries in the area which are bounded by the lakes of the Great Lakes region include Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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