Migingo Island
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Migingo is a just a football field, large island in Lake Victoria, which is about five feet high rises from the lake and is disputed between Uganda and Kenya. The rocky island is now free of any vegetation, as almost every square meter is built over with houses, and is inhabited permanently by about 400 fishermen. Reason for the dispute between the two countries, which has almost led to a military confrontation, is the extraordinary abundance of fish the surrounding waters. Precious is especially the Nile Perch, which is a major export of the region.
In fact exerts Coll Uganda, the dominion over Migingo. In the immediate vicinity of Migingo be found, however Usingo Iceland and the island belonging to Kenya Pyramid Iceland. Occasionally, the three islands are also referred to as the Migingo Islands.
Development and background of the conflict area
Two Kenyan fishermen, Dalmas Tembo and George Kibebe, claim to have settled on the island in 1991, a Ugandan fishermen, Joseph Nsubuga, 2004 got there, found only an abandoned hut and settled there. The island is now inhabited by both Kenyan and Ugandan fishermen and traders and there are regular conflicts between them. Three soldiers, a dozen police officers and eight sailors from Uganda are stationed on the island. Their number is limited by the small area. The most serious incident of verbal slugfest, and the incitement of the media in both countries occurred in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the rampaging youths tracks a major railway line to Uganda destroyed. The current Chairman of the East African Community, Paul Kagame, however, succeeded the commitment of both parties to a diplomatic solution. Meanwhile, a Ugandan- Kenyan expert committee has been set up to clarify the membership Migingos
The boundary line in Lake Victoria is recognized as regulated by the British colonial law on border demarcation. The problem: the island at that time did not exist, she appeared only in the '60s because of the falling water level of Lake Victoria on. This and the above table that in 1991 settled down there Kenyans, the statement of the Ugandan Minister Isaac Musumba precludes in a newspaper interview, according to the sunken island in the 1960s due to the high water level of Lake Victoria and in 2004 resurfaced is .. That state belonging to the above -mentioned Pyramid Iceland is unique, get in connection with the conflict over Migingo a new meaning: the Constitution of Uganda from 1955 mentioned Pyramid Iceland in the description of the boundary curve, the boundary to the eastern Kenya runs along its western tip, so that the island itself is one of Kenya. The small Pyramid Iceland is thus a kind of " demarcation " meaning in the conflict over the disputed island of Migingo: Migingo lies west of Pyramid Iceland belongs to Uganda, is it east, it is one of Kenya