Central Africa: River Nile Agreements - No Change for Poorer Downstream Countries

East African Business Week (Kampala)

20 August 2007
Posted to the web 20 August 2007

David Mugabe
Kampala

Mr John Senteza lives around the Lake Victoria shores of Ggaba, outside Kampala.

He has for close to 20 years been eking out a living from subsistence fishing. It is a trade he learnt from his father who also took it up from Senteza's grand father. In all this time, the welfare of this middle aged man has not improved. For Senteza, it has been the typical rat race of waking up and jumping onto his wooden boat, casting his net for a few fishes and selling his catch and waiting for the next day.

Developments in the River Nile basin for which Lake Victoria provides a major catchment indicates that the situation is not about to change for Senteza.

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