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	Kagera Region
		Kagera region is identified in the minds of most Tanzanians as banana and plantain country; the land of coffee and equally the land of plenty.
		The regional headquarters of Bukoba for Kagera is 616 kms from Dodoma as the crow flies.
		But unlike Kigoma, Kagera’s isolation in further compounded by poor roads into the region and by being sandwiched between the neighbouring countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi in the north, west and by the Lake Victoria waters on the east.
	www.tanzania.go.tz /regions/kagera/index.html (351 words)

	Kagera Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kagera Region is situated in the northwestern corner of Tanzania.
		Kagera Region shares borders with Uganda to the North, Rwanda and Burundi to the West, the Kigoma and Mwanza Regions to the South and Lake Victoria to the East.
		Kagera region is considered to be the first area where Lutheran missionaries settled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kagera_Region (749 words)

	Info
		Kagera "Maps of East Africa, Tanzania, Kagera Region (129 KB)", "Topographic map (149 KB)" is situated in the north west of Tanzania and is divided into 5 districts (Bukoba, Muleba, Biharamulo, Karagwe and Ngara "Administrative divisions (136 KB)").
		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)

	KAGERA REGION - TANZANIA
		The region has a common border with Uganda to the north, Rwanda and Burundi to the west, Shinyanga and Kigoma to the south.
		To the east of the region lies Lake Victoria waters of Mwanza and Mara regions.
		The land area of Kagera is the 14th largest in the country and is approximately 3.2% of the total 883,527 sq.
	www.kagerayetu.org (164 words)

	VF Proposal: Dairy Farming for Foster-Families of AIDS Orphans
		The Kagera region is located in the northwestern corner of the United Republic of Tanzania, sharing boundaries with Burundi and Rwanda to the west, and Uganda to the north.
		Kagera region is a severely disadvantaged part of the country.
		In Kagera region, youth represent another underprivileged group with the society, although there are large numbers of them (50% of the total population is below 18 years of age).
	www.virtualfoundation.org /proposals/tutanfarm1.cgi (1889 words)

	Focus on the impact of hosting refugees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The centre found that internal peace and security in Kigoma and Kagera regions, where all the refugees live, had been "devastated" by crimes, but this could not, it said, be "mainly attributed to refugees".
		For example, in Ngara District, in the Kagera region, the centre said 26 percent of the population lived more than 5 km from a health centre, as opposed to the national average of 30 percent.
		Regional and district officials complain about the amount of time they have to devote to refugee work when they should be working on their own national responsibilities.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=37223 (1298 words)

	Utamaduni: An Advanced Level Course in Swahili Language and Culture
		Kagera region in northwestern Tanzania near the borders of Uganda and Rwanda.
		The region shares boundaries with Burundi and Kagera region to the North, Shinyanga and Tabora regions to the East, Congo to the West and Rukwa region to the South.
		Tabora shares a border with Shinyanga region in the north, Singida region in the East, Mbeya and Rukwa regions in the South and Kigoma region in the west.
	african.lss.wisc.edu /utamaduni/culturalrefs.htm (6397 words)

	The EastAfrican on the Web
		The deployment of the forces in the region is intended to flush out criminals suspected to be behind an estimated 142 robberies on public passenger vehicles reported between 1998 and last year.
		Last week, the Kagera Regional Commissioner, Gen Tumaniel Kiwelu, confirmed that the government had mounted the operation, which involved the military and police to hunt down the criminals and recover weapons in their possession.
		Kagera and Kigoma border Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/05082002/Regional/Regional461.html (628 words)

	Western Circuit - Classic Tours & Safaris
		The region neighbors Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi and lies across the lake from Kenya.
		Kagera is considered to be one of the loveliest parts of Tanzania given its staggering scenic beauty, variety of nature, friendly inhabitants and strong cultural history.
		Although this region of Africa is better known for its large cats and the herds of wildebeests, zebras and giraffes that roam the savanna plains, its most diverse and endangered ecosystems are to be found under water.
	www.theclassictours.com /western_circuit.htm (1755 words)

	Credit facilities and heifer supply within the Kagera livestock development programme - Tanzania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The development of smallholder dairying in Kagera Region was discussed by de Wolff (1990) and Houterman and Omolo (1992).
		Kagera Indigenous Livestock Improvement Project (KILIP) was started in 1988 to cater for the needs of the indigenous livestock keepers, mainly by improving veterinary and extension services and input supply (de Wolff, 1990).
		In Kagera the economic impact on women of smallholder dairying is questionable as husbands tend to take over the cash obtained (Kabigiza and Obels, 1992).
	www.fao.org /docrep/x5661e/x5661e0c.htm (2933 words)

	Tanzania, Kagera Region, epicentre of AIDS 15 years ago
		In Tanzania, the population of the Kagera region, epicentre of AIDS 15 years ago, hasn’t ceased growing since then, ie with a 53% increase between 1988 and 2002.
		This programme was initiated at a time when the region was in really dire straits resulting from, among other things, the catastrophic economic situation which prevailed in Tanzania since the end of the seventies and also the war against Idi Amin’s Uganda, which had ravaged the region.
		In the region bordering Uganda, there was a very active smuggled goods market, which was not limited to basic commodities; drugs were in circulation, as was alcohol (of the home-brewed variety, a veritable poison owing to its methanol content), of which the young smugglers were the primary consumers as well as the first victims.
	www.altheal.org /texts/tanzania.htm (2463 words)

	Tanzania - IRIN: 18.Apr.97
		UNDP recently organized assessment missions to Kigoma and Kagera regions to investigate the situation and is in the process of establishing a programme to rehabilitate the refugee-affected areas.
		Tanzanians from Kigoma and Kagera regions are quick to point out that the massive presence of refugees has placed additional pressures on the area.
		Kigoma is the second poorest region in Tanzania (after Coast region), lagging behind the rest of the country in terms of health, education and infrastructure.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/97a/0036.html (4422 words)

	Prevalence and incidence of syphilis and its association with HIV-1 infection in a population-based study in the Kagera ...
		Prevalence and incidence of syphilis and its association with HIV-1 infection in a population-based study in the Kagera region of Tanzania.
		Population-based prevalence and incidence studies on HIV-1 infection were started in the Kagera region of Tanzania in 1987.
		The overall prevalence of active syphilis in the total sample of adults in the region was found to be 5.9% while that of past syphilis was 13.5%.
	www.aegis.com /aidsline/1995/may/M9550530.html (545 words)

	Marc Deru: Tanzania, Kagera Region
		In Tanzania, the population of the Kagera region, epicentre of AIDS 15 years ago, hasn't ceased growing since then, i.e., with a 53% increase between 1988 and 2002.
		This programme was initiated at a time when the region was in really dire straits resulting from, among other things, the catastrophic economic situation which prevailed in Tanzania since the end of the seventies and also the war against Idi Amin’s Uganda, which had ravaged the region.
		In the region bordering Uganda, there was a very active smuggled goods market, which was not limited to basic commodities; drugs were in circulation, as was alcohol (of the home-brewed variety, a veritable poison owing to its methanol content), of which the young smugglers were the primary consumers as well as the first victims.
	www.robertogiraldo.com /brussels/Deru_2003.html (2513 words)

	A/50/506: SG rep on aid to States receiving Rwandans (4 Oct)
		It examined, in particular, the impact of the refugees' presence on the environment, and established that extensive damage had been caused to the ecosystems in areas of the Kivu region of eastern Zaire and the wetlands of the Kagera River basin in the United Republic of Tanzania.
		A project to assist the regional administration in the coordination of the rehabilitation programme was approved.
		But there will also be a need for sustained political pressure on all countries in the region to honour their commitments in agreeing to a strategy of accelerated, organized and voluntary return and subsequent reintegration.
	www.un.org /documents/ga/docs/50/plenary/a50-506.htm (3625 words)

	Kagera on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		KAGERA [Kagera], river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, formed on the Rwanda-Tanzania border, E central Africa, by the confluence of the Nyabarongo and Ruvubu rivers.
		The Kagera's headwaters, which rise in the highlands of Rwanda and Burundi, are the remotest sources of the Nile.
		The Kagera flows north and east, forming part of Tanzania's borders with Rwanda and Uganda, before emptying into Lake Victoria.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k/kagera.asp (140 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The paper investigates the household coping strategies for food security in Kagera region, situated in the North West of Tanzania, whereby ninety percent of the population is engaged in agricultural production.
		In the 1970s, the region witnessed the surfacing of banana weevils and nematodes that killed most of the banana plants in some areas, the staple food of most people in the region.
		These specific problems when added to the national ones, then Kagera region provided an opportunity to study how rural households have been economically coping with food insecurity especially between the occurrence of the hazard and external intervention or assistance.
	www.iaen.org /files.cgi/9815_ABSTRACT.doc (348 words)

	KCDP's banana project
		The "Kagera Community Development Programme" attempts, with support of the DGCI (Directorate General for International Cooperation - Belgium), in collaboration with the Tanzanian Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), to stop this trend by providing the farmers with more resistant varieties.
		Banana plantations were flourishing in Kagera until the beginning of the 20th century, due to intensive care by farmers.
		Young farmers are migrating to less populated regions, others move to other crops such as cassava and maize or quit the farm to find work in town or as wage earners on other farms.
	www2.btcctb.org /projects/kcdp/banpj.html (1782 words)

	Untitled Document
		The complex is a swamp forest with adjacent wetlands in the Kagera River floodplain.
		Regionalism was a key concept in the initial design of the CBBP; with governments wanting to see increased synergies of working together to secure conservation and sustainable utilization of biodiversity at a variety of institutional levels.
		This wish for regionalism was articulated in the evaluation report of an earlier GEF project, “Institutional Support for the Conservation of East African Biodiversity,” carried out from 1992 to 1996.
	www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/africa/121/minziro/chap1.htm (2958 words)

	Uganda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Buganda was centrally organized under the kabaka (king), who appointed regional administrators and maintained a large bureaucracy and a powerful army.
		In 1976, Amin declared himself president for life and Uganda claimed portions of W Kenya; the move was diverted by the threat of a trade embargo.
		In 1978, Uganda invaded Tanzania in an attempt to annex the Kagera region.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ug/Uganda.html (2714 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » FEWS Tanzania Food Security Update: 10 Jan 2003
		It was reported in the previous reports that the 2002/03 short rains (vuli) season started as expected in September in Kagera region while they were staggered in the rest of the bimodal rainfall areas.
		Regional field reports are consistent with satellite data, and suggest that the vuli and long rains have increased water availability and pasture for livestock.
		For this reason regional authorities in Dodoma are encouraging traders of agricultural inputs in the region to increase their stocks of the insecticide and urging farmers to meet their chemical requirement gaps through individual or group purchases from private input outlets.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/e145cb08675daa5d49256cbc0019f1d0 (1340 words)

	Incidence of HIV-1 infection among adults in the Kagera region of Tanzania.
		Incidence of HIV-1 infection among adults in the Kagera region of Tanzania.
		The baseline study which started in August 1987, was carried out to determine the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection in the Kagera region of Tanzania.
		The age-specific annual incidence was highest in the age group 25-34 years for males and in the age group 15-24 for females.
	www.aegis.com /aidsline/1993/dec/M93C0720.html (518 words)

	.:: Technital S.p.A. - a leading International Engineering Consulting firm ::.
		The region of the Kagera River Basin occupies landlocked territory shared by four states: Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
		To this end, through a detailed study of the present socio-economic situation, the current rail transport demand and the demand foreseen for 2000 and 2020 were identified.
		Accurate evaluations were then made of the efficiency and maintenance of the current transport systems (railways, roads, lake and sea ports) in the four countries occupied by the Kagera Basin, and of present running costs.
	www.technital-spa.com /kagera.htm (607 words)

	GTZ Wildlife Programme in Tanzania, Kagera Kigoma Game Reserves Rehabilitation Project
		The reserves are located in the Kagera and Kigoma Regions which border on to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo.
		The habitats within the reserves are diverse ranging from extensive wetlands in southern Moyowosi and along the Kagera River to extensive Acacia savannas, the northernmost miombo woodlands and dry montane forest.
		During the mid 1990's there was an enormous influx of refugees from Rwanda into the Kagera Region.
	wildlife-programme.gtz.de /wildlife/kkgrr.html (902 words)

	Bukoba - Kagera - Tanzania - The official webguide
		This site is meant to highlight both nationally and internationally Kagera Region's business, industry, agriculture and tourism potential.
		This website presents a profile of Kagera by providing information about Kagera region in general, its economy, culture, tourism and travel.
		This website is for people who live and work in Kagera or would like to come to Kagera, such as investors, travelers, volunteers and other workers.
	www.kagera.org (304 words)

	Xinhua News Agency: No Insurgents Against Burundi Trained in Tanzania:.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The leader of Kagera Region in northwest Tanzania has strongly refuted allegations that insurgents were trained in the region to launch attacks against the Burundian government.
		Kagera Regional Commissioner Mohamed Babu said in Bukoba, capital of Kagera, Wednesday that allegations made by the Burundian government were baseless and unfounded.
		Babu made it clear that Tanzania has abided by the international law which does not allow refugees to engage in political activities, reports from Kagera said.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:55229899&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (193 words)

	Tanzania
		The negative impact of hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees over the last decade has led to extensive environmental damage, food scarcity, increased unemployment, overwhelmed heath care facilities, and a dramatic rise in the number of orphans and street children.
		The formation of internal human service organizations is on the rise, but the resources necessary to achieve sustainable and equitable development for their organizations and the communities that they serve are scarce.
		Most assistance is directed toward urban area initiatives, however those living in rural areas (such as in the Kagera region), remain underserved, if not entirely forgotten.
	www.mirpace.org /Tanzania.htm (423 words)

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