Recent flooding from the rising waters of
Lake Tanganyika at the port of Bujumbura in Burundi has affected 8,000 families with around 2000 people displaced in lakeside communities --including Bugarama, Kanyenkoko, Muhuta, Nyanza-Lac, Gatumba, Rukaramu, Kibenga, Gisyo and Kabondo in the province of Bujumbura Rural, roughly 12 km outside the city.
The details come from an April 25 report by The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). And it appears that the number of people affected could most probably rise as flooded houses continue to collapse.
The lake's levels have been slowly rising since February 2021 and stood at 776.45 metres above sea level as of April 19 -- as on that night, torrential rains caused the banks of the Ruzizi River to overflow.