{"id":19900,"date":"2021-10-25T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/10\/25\/lake-victorias-massive-pollution-africas-largest-lake-is-dying\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:10:20","slug":"lake-victorias-massive-pollution-africas-largest-lake-is-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/10\/25\/lake-victorias-massive-pollution-africas-largest-lake-is-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Victoria&rsquo;s massive pollution: Africa&rsquo;s largest lake is dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Lake Victoria, the\u00a0planet&rsquo;s second-largest\u00a0freshwater lake and the largest in Africa,\u00a0is in serious danger from pollution. Because lakeside communities from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania have practically no access to sewage infrastructure, a\u00a0constant flow of sewage, fertilisers, garbage and plastic waste is suffocating what has long been the main provider of food and livelihoods in this part of East\u00a0Africa. Despite what seems like an uphill struggle,\u00a0young activists are\u00a0sounding the alarm in order to raise awareness. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24&rsquo;s James Vasina and Camille Nedelec.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Victoria, the\u00a0planet&rsquo;s second-largest\u00a0freshwater lake and the largest in Africa,\u00a0is in serious danger from pollution. Because lakeside communities from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania have practically no access to sewage infrastructure, a\u00a0constant flow of sewage, fertilisers, garbage and plastic waste is suffocating what has long been the main provider of food and livelihoods in this part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-19900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}