VIDEO: Saving lives on Lake Victoria

>After years of contending with little or no access to healthcare facilities, thousands of residents living on about 170 islands in Lake Victoria will now have a reason to smile—thanks to the Royal Navy Ship that has been deployed to serve as a floating hospital.   The “saviour” ship has landed at Lake Victoria after six months at sea and over 850km (500 miles) overland.

For Comic Relief 2015, comedian Lenny Henry has travelled to Uganda to find out how money raised in the UK is helping save lives in Africa.

A mobile hospital ship is been launched on Lake Victoria, bringing medical care to the residents of the area's 3,000 islands.

Women who have overcome depression are running therapy sessions to help others

One village in Guinea at the centre of an Ebola outbreak battles the disease which has killed hundreds in West Africa.

>Aid workers rushing to save lives worldwide are increasingly becoming targets for attack, in a worrying development for NGOs trying to ease suffering in hostile war zones.

By Mboneko MunyagaEast African News Agency
As East Africa inches towards integration, there is great need, as in the words of Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o, for the region to also ‘re-member’ its broken past. One of the tragedies of colonialism was to treat the people in colonized lands as if they had no past or meaningful pre-existence.
Thus in the name of religion, the people were given new names or local names were Anglicized in order for them to appear ‘civilized.’ It is not uncommon that...

>It always astounds me when I hear politicians using the same worn-out tactics to address an almost perennial situation. I am talking of the problem of over-fishing, use of dynamites, poison and nets with very small ‘eyes’.

A boat said to have been carrying more than 200 people capsizes on Lake Victoria, with reports saying lives have been lost.