THE commissioning of the 923-metre long and 18.5-metre wide Kazungula Bridge by Presidents Edgar Lungu of Zambia and Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana on May 10, 2021, was greeted with great excitement on both sides of the mighty Zambezi River.The momentous occasion was witnessed by Presidents Felix Tshisekedi of Democratic Republic of Congo and current African Union Chairperson, Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique and current Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community, and Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe.To complement this land linkage, the Zambian and Congolese governments have already agreed to construct another key regional interconnector road and bridge, the Mwenda-Kasomeno Road and Bridge between Luapula Province in Zambia and Katanga region in DRC.The Kazungula and Mwenda-Kasomeno bridges are part of Zambia’s key strategic infrastructural road projects intended to totally transform Zambia from a land-locked to a land-linked country; what with the expanded air-link infrastructure in form of airports.The excitement that characterised the Kazungula Bridge commissioning went beyond […]
NGULA TO MWENDA-KASOMENO: FROM A LAND-LOCKED TO A LAND-LINKED ZAMBIA
