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  Bukoba travel guide
Bukoba is on the western shore of Lake Victoria in the extreme northwest of Tanzania.
Bukoba is the regional capital and the largest town in the Kagera region, which borders Uganda to the north, Rwanda to the west, and Burundi to the southwest.
Bukoba is a fairly small town and the centre of town is flat and compact, though many people and organisations are located in the surrounding hills.
www.world66.com /africa/tanzania/bukoba   (335 words)

  
  Bukoba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bukoba is a town in northwest Tanzania on the western shore of Lake Victoria.
Situated on the shore of Lake Victoria, Bukoba lies only 1 degree south of the Equator and is Tanzania's second largest port on the lake.
Bukoba town is situated at the Western shore of Lake Victoria in the northwest of Tanzania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bukoba   (266 words)

  
 Bukoba Kids Sports Club
Bukoba Kids will be the leading youth sport club in Kagera region and an example for the rest of Tanzania, creating a professional environment where young talented players will be trained and empowered to make the best out of their sports and their lives in general.
Bukoba Kids supports the children besides giving them sport training and other skills also by paying for their schoolbooks and giving the children porridge after every training and game.
Bukoba Kids Sport Club is in need of volunteers that are prepared to come to Bukoba, Tanzania and can help us set up the club, train the children and coaches and set up professional training programmes.
www.kagera.org /bk.htm   (1161 words)

  
 Bukoba Overview by Greg Vogl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
I was a computer/IT lecturer at the University of Bukoba, Tanzania from 2001 to 2003.
Bukoba is a medium-sized town of about 80,000 people on the western shores of Lake Victoria, the "Eye of Africa", Africa's largest lake and source of the Nile river.
Bukoba is located in the Kagera district in the northwest of Tanzania, which also borders Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
www.321site.com /greg/bukoba/overview.htm   (346 words)

  
 Info
The headquarters of the region are Bukoba Urban.
The Kagera region borders Uganda to the North, Rwanda and Burundi to the west, Kigoma region to the south and Mwanza and Mara regions to the East, separated by Lake Victoria.
The population "Population (163 KB)" of Kagera region for 1999 was estimated at 1,853,942 covering 5 districts and the headquarters of the Region, Bukoba Urban.
www2.btcctb.org /projects/kcdp/info.html   (1438 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Emin’s successor in Bukoba, Captain Langheld, in 1892 rescued women and children fleeing from civil wars in south Uganda.” By 1900 civil administration was widely established in Bukoba and across the border in Uganda.
Bukoba was a district center under the Lake Province with a capital at Mwanza.
The Tanzania sawmills fed timber to Bukoba and Mwanza.
www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/africa/121/minziro/chap3.htm   (3186 words)

  
 AEGiS-NEWSDAY: A Continent at Risk: Heterosexual epidemic ravaging world of poor resources, education
It is also among the poorest pockets of the continent - and the planet - with its aging or nonexistent infrastructure, a rate of population growth that threatens to outstrip potential food supplies and numerous other epidemic diseases such as malaria, measles, polio and malnutrition.
Bukoba, the capital of the Kagera Region, is a fishing and trading center of 30,000 people beside Lake Victoria.
Bukoba's chief laboratory technician and coordinator of the region's HIV testing effort, Joseph Nkungu, explained that the hospital is without power more than 25 percent of the time because of rationing, making it impossible to conduct laboratory tests or safely refrigerate blood and vaccines.
www.aegis.com /news/NEWSDAY/1988/ND881202.html   (4027 words)

  
 African Safari to Lake Victoria, Tanzania | Kiroyera Tours ::: How to get to Bukoba
Bukoba is located between the gorillas in Uganda and Serengeti in Tanzania.
Bukoba can be reached by road in one day from either Nairobi (Kenya) or Kampala (Uganda).
Call or e-mail (info@kiroyeratours.com) Kiroyera Tours for the arrangement of your travel to Bukoba from any spot you want to be within East Africa or elsewhere.
www.kiroyeratours.com /go_lakevictoria_bukoba.htm   (317 words)

  
 Sydney Airport 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Airplan, in conjunction with the Overseas Projects Corporation of Victoria, was commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat, London to undertake a feasibility study for the establishment of a new airport or upgrading of the existing one.
Bukoba is the administrative centre for the Kagera region in the north-west of Tanzania and close to the border with Uganda.
The existing Bukoba airport which has a 1300 metre gravel runway is linked to Mwanza on the opposite side of Lake Victoria by daily flights conducted by Precisionair using a 19 seat LET 410 turboprop aircraft which is based at Bukoba.
www.airplan.com.au /flyer/africa.html   (380 words)

  
 6/3/96 INT/THE SHIP OF DOOM
The journey by road from the Lake Victoria port of Bukoba to Mwanza is a rough one even by African standards: 12 hours on a creaky bus on a dangerous, rutted track.
Most of the victims remained trapped inside the steel hull as the ship went down, and by week's end hundreds had yet to be recovered from their watery tomb.
When he reached the upturned hull of the Bukoba, it was rocking imperceptibly and settling deeper into the waves as air bubbles escaped.
www.time.com /time/international/1996/960603/tanzania.html   (1335 words)

  
 African   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bukoba, Tanzania - Recently, sixty East African women celebrated what many had thought could only be a dream.
With the blessing of His Grace Jeronymos, Bishop of Bukoba, the seminar was held at the OCMC-built Kasikizi Diocese Center.
His Grace Jeronymos of Bukoba shares with us that “There is great demand for Orthodoxy in our area.
www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /129/African.htm   (327 words)

  
 Welcome to Bukoba Products, dealers in agricultural products in tanzania
Kilimanjaro and Bukoba are the most famous for high quality coffee production in Tanzania.
Bukoba Products Limited are exporting Tanzania High quality Arabica and Robusta Coffee (Green and Roasted Coffee Beans), Maize grains and Maize flour, Ground Peanut and Beans to Resellers, Distributors, Roasters and Processors in and out of Tanzania.
Bukoba Products Ltd was established in the year 2001 with a goal of among others to develop and market Agricultural Products found in Tanzania and in particular in Kagera region to the local and export market.
www.bukobaproducts.com   (190 words)

  
 The EastAfrican
Their main link with the outside world is vessels plying the Lake Victoria ports of Bukoba and Mwanza.
The huge but ageing mv Victoria and the other, smaller vessels left on the lake cannot satisfy maritime transport needs, and, although memories of the Bukoba tragedy are gradually receding, travelling by sea still gives many people the jitters.
While immunity against accidents is impossible to achieve, it is sad that people travelling between two points in Tanzania should have to "transit" through Kenya and Uganda for the sake of a relatively more comfortable and quicker ride than a direct Dar-Bukoba trip can offer, because of the atrocious road.
www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/07022000/Opinion/Opinion8.html   (344 words)

  
 1995_1_coordination constraints in Tanzania
Bukoba Rural District (Kagera Region), Tanzania, is greatly affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
This dependence on donors also explains why such a large number of organizations in Bukoba were doing "something" on AIDS: AIDS had become a marketing instrument.
Coordination in Bukoba could be furthered via a clearly defined HIV/AIDS policy and strategy and a demarcation of tasks and responsibilities at all levels.
www.kit.nl /ils/exchange_content/html/1995_1_coordination_constraint.asp   (838 words)

  
 NEWSLETTER-INSIDE APPGROUP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Police officers in Bukoba disrupted the final day of the interview because parents of some of the rejected applicants protested to the teacher who recruited the applicants that their children were rejected.
The treasurer of Catholic Diocese of Bukoba informed the president that some people wants to sabotage NSAM programmes in Tanzania and advised the president to stop further investment and safeguard property already invested in Tanzania.
Meanwhile, Rugalema John Paul and the police officers he was paying with NSAM money in Bukoba succeeded in making the mother of the landlady of NSAM residential house in Moshi convinced her daughter to agree for eviction of NSAM office volunteers from their rented accommodation in Moshi.
www.appgroup.org /newsletter_inside_appgroup_africa_tanzania_backgrounds.htm   (2963 words)

  
 Bukoba travel guide — Bukoba tourism and travel information
You can also browse and buy directly Bukoba city guide and Tanzania travel guide books, Bukoba maps and Tanzania maps and atlases.
We are happy to offer cheap airline tickets Bukoba, cheap flights Bukoba, also available cheap airline tickets to Tanzania and to the whole world.
We are happy to offer cheap hotels in Bukoba, Tanzania hotel guide and cheap hotels and accommodation in lot of other world-wide destinations.
www.city-travel-guide.co.uk /travel-guide/bukoba-travel-guide.html   (541 words)

  
 Bukoba an Undiscovered Jewel - FamousWhy
Bukoba and the surrounding region is undoubtedly one of the loveliest parts of Tanzania boasting staggering beauty, the friendliest of inhabitants and a fascinating cultural history.
Bukoba is located in the remote west of Tanzania - in the very heart of Africa - and on the western shore of the massive Lake Victoria; its vast waters and miles of white sand shores are awe-inspiring.
Tanzania has many unusual National Parks and Bukoba and Lake Victoria is no exception; Rubondo Island and a wildlife sanctuary based on Saa Nane Island [Eight O'clock Island] is a fascinating and very special National Park.
articles.famouswhy.com /bukoba_an_undiscovered_jewel   (669 words)

  
 Rubya
Out of 181 priests ordained for Bukoba Diocese alone from this seminary, 45 have passed away while 95 priests are actively engaged in pastoral activities within Bukoba Diocese and the rest are serving in other dioceses and institutions worldwide.
Rubya is located 75 km away from the regional centre of Bukoba situated in Kagera region.
It is in the South West of Bukoba town, and is itself located on the West of the Lake Victoria.
www.thomasmerton.org /Rubya.html   (558 words)

  
 African Enterprise USA
Also, the team will be preparing another pre-mission training for pastors, and their spouses in Bukoba, in April.
The challenge is to bring the pastors of different denominations in Bukoba, to a common understanding of carrying on together the task of evangelism.
Now that AEE (T) is now well known in Tanzania, the demand for us serving locally is very big – sometimes those who demand our service do not have anything to contribute – so finances become a set back in catering for those who are hungry for the gospel through our meager resources.
www.africanenterprise.org /db/teamnews/tanzania200402.html   (606 words)

  
 Bukoba - Kagera - Tanzania - The official webguide
Bukoba, Kagera Region's capital, is a fast growing town with an attractive waterside setting.
Situated on the shore of Lake Victoria, Bukoba lies only 1 degree south of the Equator and is Tanzania's second largest port on the lake.
Kagera comprises of five administrative districts: Bukoba, Muleba, Karagwe, Ngara and Biharamulo.
www.kagera.org   (304 words)

  
 Worldisround - Bukoba, Lake Victoria, Tanzania, Africa - Lakes in Tanzania photos
Lakes in Tanzania - travel photos - I was invited during the Xmas holidays 2004, by one of my students to visit her home in...
I was invited during the Xmas holidays 2004, by one of my students to visit her home in Bukoba, which is a small old town at the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.
l was so pleased to see the pich back to home sweet home many thanks to the marilyn who wouter,s my villeges,more thanks.and l can,t wait to go back to bukoba mugin l means tonw lost of love to all people,s tanzania back home good bless all.
www.worldisround.com /articles/108730   (278 words)

  
 Orthodoxy is spreading rapidly in the Diocese of Bukoba in Tanzania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Orthodoxy is spreading rapidly in the Diocese of Bukoba in Tanzania
The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), St. Augustine, FL - Orthodoxy is spreading rapidly in the Diocese of Bukoba in Tanzania.
The Diocese's mission efforts are focused on increasing the number of communities and faithful, deepening the Orthodox Faith among the newly illumined and expressing the Faith in good works.
freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1113166/posts   (660 words)

  
 Tanzania, Kagera Region, epicentre of AIDS 15 years ago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
I was based in town, in Bukoba, but often roamed about in the bush, visiting and sometimes lodging in the 21 villages of the rural district of Bukoba covered by the French NGO, Partage Tanzania, an area with approximately 70,000 inhabitants.
In the 1980s, Bukoba had been a ghost town in which everything was lacking, where matches and soap had to be purchased on the fl market… In rural areas, dire poverty, entirely inadequate nutrition, lack of health and medical care and a very high mortality rate prevailed.
There have been, and continue to be, advertising campaigns relating to the use of condoms, numerous articles on AIDS in the newspapers, on “HIV” and the threat of an epidemic, as well as lots of words on the subject at meetings and in official speeches.
www.altheal.org /texts/tanzania.htm   (2463 words)

  
 Judgment 147 (ILOAT) - Administrative Tribunal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Organization claims that this was a mistake, as proved by the fact that in a letter of 14 September 1967 the Secretary-General of the WMO informed Mr.
Schuster that he would be posted to Bukoba (Tanzania), some 200 kilometres south of Entebbe.
The Organization referred him to the letter of 14 September 1967 and to the interviews he had had at WMO headquarters before his departure for Africa, in the course of which he had been clearly told that he would be posted to Bukoba.
www.ilo.org /public/english/tribunal/fulltext/0147.htm   (1270 words)

  
 Bukoba Links by Greg Vogl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Here are links to websites of some of the organizations based in Bukoba and the Kagera region.
The University of Bukoba is still trying to restart.
Bukoba Cyber Centre is the region's main Internet and e-mail provider.
www.321site.com /greg/bukoba/links.htm   (185 words)

  
 Kolping Society of Tanzania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Overall Patronage and representation of the KST in the higher echelons of the church is the Protector, who must be a bishop member of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference.
In June 1989 he formed the first Kolping "family" at Kibeta in Bukoba Parish, in the Diocese of Bukoba.
More than a decade later, the number of Kolping Families has risen to 80 with a membership of 2453 in 36 parishes in 6 Dioceses.
www.kolpingtz.org /Structure.html   (278 words)

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