Which African Lake?

Can you name the African lakes described in each clue?

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Clue	Lake
The largest tropical lake in the world	Lake Victoria
Was briefly renamed Lake Idi Amin in the 70s	Lake Edward
Its area had reached 400,000 km² during the African humid period	Lake Chad
Reservoir created by the Aswan Dam – named for an Egyptian president	Lake Nasser
Henry Morton Stanley found David Livingstone in 1871 in Ujiji near this lake	Lake Tanganyika
Has the greatest diversity of fish species of any lake in the world	Lake Malawi
It is both the largest lake in Ethiopia and the main source of the Blue Nile	Lake Tana
Where a boat of Congolese refugees capsized and killed 251 people in 2014	Lake Albert
The world's largest man-made lake by volume	Lake Kariba
This "shocking" reservoir in Ghana reached its fullest capacity in 1965 after the completion of the Akosombo Dam	Lake Volta
World's largest permanent desert lake	Lake Turkana
Has massive amounts of methane and carbon dioxide trapped in its deep waters	Lake Kivu
Djiboutian lake with the lowest point on land in Africa	Lake Assal
Largest lake in Togo – don't overthink it now	Lake Togo
Large lake in the middle of the Suez Canal	Great Bitter Lake
Crimson lake in northern Tanzania known for its flamingo population – named for a mineral that consists of hydrated sodium carbonate	Lake Natron
Largest lake that entirely is situated in Tanzania	Lake Rukwa
Largest lake entirely in Uganda	Lake Kyoga

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Nov 10, 2021

well damn

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