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Around this lake, fishermen use lamp light attraction to catch the endemic sleek late perch (-5[1])in the practice of lusenga. Water temperature in this meromictic lake unusually differs by only three degrees Celsius between its surface and lower regions. This “practically endorheic” lake has an outflow (-5[1])to the sea only when overflowing water levels spill into the Lukuga River at colonial Albertville. At the town of Ujiji on this lake, Henry Morton Stanley uttered (-5[1])the famous words “Dr. Livingston, (-5[2])I presume?” Bujumbura, (-5[1])the former capital of Burundi, (-5[1])is situated at the northern terminus (-5[1])of this lake, which is both the world’s longest and second (-5[1])deepest freshwater lake. For 10 points, name this African Great Lake that shares its name with a British colony that united with Zanzibar (0[3])to form Tanzania. ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Lake Tanganyika [accept Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika]
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