BUKOBA: OVER 200 labourers at the Bukoba Port have been paid over 20m/-, being two months’ wages they were claiming from an ...

MV Bukoba moments before she disappeared from the surface of Lake Victoria on May 21st, 1996. ON the morning of May, 21, 1996, a ship christened MV Bukoba, carrying more than 1,000 passengers and ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said was badly overcrowded and upended in the final ...

Bukoba — SIXTEEN years after the dreadful MV Bukoba accident which claimed more than 1,000 lives, a survivor of the accident, Mr David Mutensa (42) has advised the government to make May 21 an ...

ABOARD THE MV SERENGETI — The radar alarm suddenly goes off. Capt. Manase Kombe frantically begins raking a searchlight over the dark waters of Africa’s largest lake, trying to locate whatever ...

In 1996, more than 800 people died when passenger and cargo ferry MV Bukoba sank on Lake Victoria. Nearly 200 people died in 2011 when the MV Spice Islander I sank off Tanzania's Indian Ocean ...

In 1996, more than 800 people died when passenger and cargo ferry MV Bukoba sank on Lake Victoria. And nearly 200 people died in 2011 when the MV Spice Islander I sank off Tanzania’s Indian ...

KAMPALA, Uganda – The death toll rose above 100 on Friday after a ferry capsized and sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzania state radio reported. The toll is likely to rise further as search and rescue ...

Mud, horns, diesel fumes, rust, heat and hordes of people -- the fraught scene at the Bamba Tenda ferry crossing, where the pitted Trans-Gambia highway fords the Gambia River, is a familiar one in ...

Survivor Rescued From Inside Capsized Tanzanian Ferry Two days after the disaster, which left more than 200 people dead, divers pulled a man from inside the vessel. He reportedly locked himself in ...

Tanzanian ferries often carry hundreds of passengers and are overcrowded, and shifts in weight as passengers move to disembark can become deadly.