The screams coming from Lake Tanganyika were Nitegeka Abiya’s first sign her husband Mayoya wasn’t coming home. He had only gone to wash up when he was snatched from the shore, leaving a pregnant Nitegeka to raise their child alone.
A tragedy like this should happen once in a lifetime, but for years in Burundi it was a sadly familiar tale.
Burundi, one of the smallest countries in Africa, is wedged between the Democratic Republic of the Congo…