Kyoga

Or Kio·ga

[kyoh-guh]

noun

1. Lake, a lake in central Uganda. About 1,000 sq. mi. (2,600 sq. km).

Example Sentences

This species of benign bacteria exists in soil all over the world, but it was first discovered on the shore of Lake Kyoga in Uganda in the 1970s by immunologist John Stanford after researchers noticed that leprosy patients who lived around the lake responded better to treatments than those receiving the same treatment in other areas.

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Photos posted on social media by local residents show dozens of lifeless fish washed up ashore at Lake Victoria, as well as Lake Kyoga and River Nile.

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Tourists have been flocking to the site to see the falls located on a section of the Nile between the lakes Kyoga and Albert.

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He gave the example of Mycobacterium vaccae, a benign soil-dwelling bacteria that was first identified on the shores of Lake Kyoga in Uganda in the 1970s.

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Located on the River Nile between the Ugandan lakes Kyoga and Albert, Murchison Falls lies about 280 km northwest of the capital Kampala.

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