Burundians evacuate as lake rises in Tanganyika
Amissa Irakoze never frightened Lake Tanganyika in her 40 years beside the sea. Her front entrance was frequently flooded, but they always retreated. She couldn’t have predicted April 2020. Irakoze returned home from the fields to find her home underwater and her ten children disappeared. “I cried, ‘My children, my children!’” the single mother said. … Read more