Lake Tanganyika

🔆Lake Tanganyika

✅Why in News: Most internal displacement in East Africa’s Burundi due to rise of Lake Tanganyika.   

✅It is the second largest lake in eastern Africa. 

✅It is the longest freshwater lake in the world and the second deepest after Lake Baikal in Russia. 

✅The lake is shared among four countries namely Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia. 

✅It is situated on the line dividing the floral regions of eastern and western Africa, and oil palms, which are characteristic of the flora of western Africa, grow along the lake’s shores. 

✅The largest rivers discharging into the lake are the Malagarasi, the Ruzizi, and the Kalambo. Its outlet is the Lukuga River, which flows into the Lualaba River. 

✅Rice and subsistence crops are grown along the shores, and fishing is of some significance. Hippopotamuses and crocodiles abound, and the bird life is varied