The Latawama project and the Tanzanian Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI) conducted, in April 2022, an identification and feasibility mission to establish a new research environmental monitoring centre in the southern part of Lake Tanganyika.

The LATAWAMA project, in collaboration with the Uvira municipality, launched awareness-raising and solid waste collection activities on 19 and 20 April. This initiative is part of the LATAWAMA project implemented by the Belgian development agency Enabel and the Lake Tanganyika Authority with funding from the European Union