Tanzania can be king, and EAC could see its first climate-induced state failure

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Tanzania, with 51 percent of Lake Victoria and a relatively stable climate, could become a breadbasket—if it invests in irrigation and storage.

Photo credit: Joseph Nyagah | Nation Media Group

Recent weeks and days have seen several climate and environmental events and reports, small and big, that have left East Africa teetering between catastrophe and opportunity.

A toxic algae bloom in Lake Victoria, caused by the shameful level of pollution of the waters by the three East African Community countries who share it, left an unbearable stench along its shores in Uganda.