Dozens of low fishing boats lay anchored in flat waters off Mozambique's capital, stranded for days as surging fuel costs kept their owners from heading out to sea.
A parliamentary committee has promised to intervene and ensure security is beefed up in Lake Victoria to cushion Kenyan fishermen from harassment by authorities from neighbouring countries.
The mighty Congo River feeds millions of people along its course through the vast Democratic Republic of Congo but fishermen near the capital now find more plastic than fish in their nets.