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  • The '''Luapula River''' is a section of [[Africa]]'s second-longest river, the [[Congo River|Congo]]. It is a [[Internationa ...boldly marked as the 'Luapula' and confidently shown on many maps flowing south out of Lake Bangweulu at 11°25'S 29°49'E can be seen on satellite images
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  • ...n the north, and the [[Luangwa River|Luangwa Valley]] rift in the east and south-east are just within the province. In places the rift valleys have pushed u ...the province diagonally as it meanders to [[Lake Bangweulu]] in the south-west. During times of very heavy rains, these rivers, particularly the Chambeshi
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  • ...its name from the local Chief Mansa and the small Mansa River which flows west to the [[Luapula River]]. During British rule the city was named ''Fort Ros ...uapula River|Luapula Valley]] road (all paved) running south-east to north-west. The main highway to the [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]] vi
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  • ...in West Africa and ''S. c. aequinoctialis'' is in the savannas of Central Africa. The adult buffalo's horns are its characteristic feature; they have fused ...liar to South and East Africa. Buffaloes of this subspecies living in the south of the continent, notably tall in size and ferocity, are the so-called Cape
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  • | image = Leopard africa.jpg | image_caption = African leopard in [[South Luangwa National Park]].
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  • # [[Kasamba Stream Grinding Grooves]], [[Samfya]] — Iron Age site 1.6 km south of boma where axes and iron implements were sharpened, at 11°20' S 29°33' # [[Kundabwika Rock Painting]] — near [[Kundabwika Falls]], 96 km north-west of [[Mporokoso]] at 9°13' S 29°19' E.
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  • ...lometre-wide [[Barotse Floodplain]] of the [[Zambezi River]] running north-south, which in the [[wet season]] floods right up to the town. The city is 15 ki ...Lozi ruler, the [[Litunga]], has a dry season [[palace]] 12 km north-west at [[Lealui]] on the floodplain, and a flood season palace on higher ground
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  • ...has a long tradition of practical use in [[Zambia]] except in parts of the south. Since [[draught animal]]s such as [[oxen]] were not heavily used, water t ...Horace Waller]] (ed.): ''The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his Death''. Two volumes, John Murray, 1874.</ref>
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  • ...from the early 1890s to 1902. Alone and unassisted, he arrived from South Africa in about 1887, reputedly as an outlaw, and assembled and trained a private ...k attempted to secure protection for his holdings from the [[British South Africa Company]]. The Company took little notice of him. When a local chief, Chint
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  • ...IAAJ}}</ref> and the cordial attitude of the Kaunda government towards the West,<ref name=heritage/> however, Kaunda visited the Soviet Union on [[state vi ...Lusaka (now the [[Russian embassy]]) was the largest embassy in [[Southern Africa]].]]
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  • ...erritory around [[Kasama, Zambia|Kasama]]. At the time the [[British South Africa Company]] (BSAC) chartered by Britain to administer [[North-Eastern Rhodesi ...athers]] missionary society, now called the Society of the Missionaries of Africa. He was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] a priest on 21 December 1878, and took his
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  • ...e [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]], about {{convert|12|km}} west of the [[TAZARA Railway]] and half-way between [[Mpika]] and [[Chinsali]]. ...the settler-ruled and segregationist Southern Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa. He involved himself in politics as detailed in his [[Stewart Gore-Browne|b
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  • The '''Itezhi-Tezhi Dam''' on the [[Kafue River]] in west-central [[Zambia]] was built between 1974 and 1977 at the Itezhi-Tezhi Gap, ...{{convert|260|km}} downstream. The Kafue River, like most in south-central Africa, has a very high seasonal variation, flooding in the rainy season and slowi
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  • ...o spelled ''Mwelu'', ''Mwero'') is a freshwater lake on the longest arm of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo. Located on the border between [[Zambia]] ...-largest lake in the Congo's [[drainage basin]] and is located 150&nbsp;km west of the southern end of the largest, [[Lake Tanganyika]].<ref name="Google"/
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  • |timezone = [[South Africa Standard Time|SAST]] ...cular scenery and wildlife of its own. The [[Lower Zambezi National Park]] west of the town is a rugged wilderness on the [[Zambezi Escarpment]] and the lo
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  • ...iving his UFP little chance of winning seats.<ref>Andrew Sardanis (2011) ''Africa: Another Side of the Coin: Northern Rhodesia's Final Years and Zambia's Nat ...e in finding the attackers.<ref name=EAR3>"High Poll, No Violence", ''East Africa and Rhodesia'', 1 November 1962, p202</ref> African candidates for the UFP
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  • ...% <br> {{flag|China}} 14.1% <br> {{flag|DR Congo}} 13.4% <br> {{flag|South Africa}} 6.1% <br> {{flag|United Arab Emirates}} 4.9% (2014 est.)<ref>{{cite web|u |import-partners = {{flag|South Africa}} 31.3% <br> {{flag|DR Congo}} 18.7% <br> {{flag|China}} 9.3% <br> {{flag|K
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  • ...areas including Parklands, Riverside, Buchi, Chimwemwe, Nkana East, Nkana West, Garneton and Race Course, to mention a few.<ref name="ITM"/> The city is s ...ys main line reached the town in 1937, providing passenger services as far south as [[Bulawayo]], with connections to [[Cape Town]]. The line was extended i
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  • ...h century. Another group of Baleya under Chief Sekute lived near the river west of the town. The most numerous people in the area, though, were the [[Tokal ...eland]] but in 1838 the [[Kololo]], a [[Lesotho|Sotho]] tribe from [[South Africa]] displaced by [[Ndwandwe-Zulu War|Zulu wars]], migrated north and conquere
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  • ...sily pass on instructions to other players. That same year, he was sent to West Germany for a basic coaching course. ...in Morocco so FAZ recalled him after six months to take the team to North Africa where Zambia bowed out in the group stages.
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