{"id":27081,"date":"2025-02-21T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T01:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27081"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:28:37","slug":"lake-kivu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lake-kivu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Kivu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lake Kivu Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>According to a UN report, Lake Kivu offers leisure in Rwanda but Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces devastation after M23 rebels seized the city last month.<\/p>\n<h2>About Lake Kivu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>great lakes of East Africa<\/strong>, situated between the <strong>Democratic Republic of Congo <\/strong>(DRC) to the west and <strong>Rwanda<\/strong> to the east.<\/li>\n<li>It is Rwanda\u2019s largest lake and the sixth largest in Africa.<\/li>\n<li>It is in the <strong>Albertine Rift<\/strong>, the western branch of the East African Rift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Features of Lake Kivu\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is lying at 1,460 metres above sea level, it occupies 1,040 square miles (2,700 sq.km).<\/li>\n<li>58% of its waters are lying in the DRC; the rest are situated in Rwanda.<\/li>\n<li>Its irregular shores form a number of inlets and peninsulas, and plenty of waterfalls.<\/li>\n<li>Lake Kivu empties into the <strong>Rusizi River<\/strong>, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Islands:<\/strong> The tenth largest inland island on the planet,<strong> Idjwi Island<\/strong>, is located on Kivu Lake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Lake Kivu FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is Lake Kivu famous for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Lake Kivu is the largest local source of fish in Rwanda,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> Where is Kivu located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Lake Kivu is located in East Africa, on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What river does it flow into?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Rusizi River<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/africa\/rwanda-congo-m23-lake-kivu-conflict.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> NYT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Kivu is one of the great lakes of East Africa, situated between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the west and Rwanda to the east<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}