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Lake Tanganyika rising water levels affects thousands in Burundi

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Thousands of households in Burundi are stranded as the Lake Tanganyika water levels rise to heights never seen before in 57 years.

The longest fresh water lake in the world and the second deepest globally 776,45 metres, while the average lake level is 772,7m.

After a series of floods, this stands above the surface level of parts of the capital city of Bujumbura and of some coastal localities.

The current rise in the level of Lake Tanganyika is compared to that of 1964.

In recent years, heavy rains following the global phenomena of El niño, combined with local specificities, have swelled the bed of Lake Tanganyika.

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