Kenya: How Ebola Outbreak in DRC Adversely Affects Lake Turkana Fish Trade

20 October 2020

Commercial fishing activities are taking a new twist in Lake Turkana, three months after an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the main external fish market for most Kenyan traders.

Some of the Beach Management Units (BMUs) at the desert lake have scaled down operations to minimise losses due to falling fish prices after some countries bordering DRC introduced stringent health restrictions to contain the spread of the dreaded disease.

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