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A Precision Air airliner with 43 persons aboard crashes into Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Nineteen occupants are killed; the others are rescued.
2022-11-6

Six Tanzanian children are killed for their eyes, ears and other body parts. A Njombe district official, who found many were taken when they were home alone whilst their parents were working, believes that superstitious beliefs and witchcraft are involved. Four other missing children have been found alive.
2019-01-28

The death toll of the MV "Nyerere" sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, rises to 207. Several people are still missing.
2018-09-22

At least 136 people are dead and more than 100 others are missing after a ferry capsizes in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
2018-09-20

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs in northern Tanzania, near Lake Victoria, killing at least 13 people and injuring 200 others. Tanzanian authorities report significant damage in the town of Bukoba. The governments of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda report tremors.
2016-09-10

Two boats collide between Kiwa and Remba Islands on Lake Victoria leaving several people dead.
2015-08-4

Tanzanian flooding kills 42 people near Lake Victoria in the Kahama District.
2015-03-5

Voters in Tanzania go to the polls for the country's general election.
2010-10-31

The dismembered corpse of an abducted 9-year-old albino boy is found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border and buried.
2010-10-24

18 children die after their boat capsizes on the Tanzanian side of Lake Victoria.
2010-08-5