2006 United Nations Environment Programme: Global International
Waters Assessment. East African Rift Valley Lakes, GIWA Regional
assessment 47. Published by the University of Kalmar on behalf of
United Nations Environment Programme.
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http://www.unep.org/dewa/giwa/areas/reports/r47/giwa_regional_assessment_47.pdf
The East African Rift Valley Lakes (EARVL), GIWA region 47, runs
from the northern end of Lake Turkana Basin to the southern tip of
Lake Malawi/ Nyasa Basin and includes all the natural habitat and
associated human communities found within the Rift Valley and on
the adjacent escarpments. It encompasses parts of the following
countries; Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda,
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Zambia, Malawi
and Mozambique. The main lakes in the region include Victoria,
Tanganyika, Malawi, Turkana, Albert, Edward, George and Kivu. All
are tropical and together comprise the African Great Lakes
ecoregion. However, each lake lies within its own separate drainage
basin, with its own assemblage of endemic organisms, most notably
the cichlid fish species-flocks.
Ecologically Sensitive Sites in Africa. Volume 2: Eastern
Africa
- Washington, DC: World Bank, 1993
- https://archive.org/details/ecologicallysens02wcmc