Article: The island of trouble

A tiny rocky island situated just where Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania meet in Lake Victoria has become a bone of contention between Kenya and Uganda. "The island is in Kenya but the water is in Uganda. They want to fish here, but this is Uganda," says Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni. But old colonial maps say otherwise. Wanjohi Kabukuru reports.

It is a one-acre piece of rock jutting out of Africa's largest freshwater lake, Victoria. Interestingly on some maps the island is not even a dot, it is actually not even seen. No one would have ever imagined that this rocky island patch where Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda meet would one day be a source of nationalistic passion, create issues for ...

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