A fishing boat comes back from Lake Malawi to a village in Salima, Malawi, on April 4, 2012. Lake Malawi covers about 24,400 square kilometres and stretches into neighbouring Tanzania and Mozambique. FILE PHOTO | XINHUA
Malawian President Peter Mutharika has affirmed his country's claim to Lake Malawi as a feud simmers with neighbouring Tanzania over the vast territory where both sides are hoping to find oil.
"We are not going to go to war but the lake has been ours for 104 years," Mutharika told a news conference in the capital Lilongwe late Tuesday, broadcast on public television.
