Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge Chapters Democratic Republic of the Congo Zambia Border Lake Tanganyika Luapula Province Border Dispute Lake Mweru Luapula River Excerpt This article deals mainly with a disputed area on the border of Zambia in Luapula Province Zambia s formal northern frontier boundary was legally signed in the Anglo Belgian Treaty of 1894 long after the 1884 Berlin Conference This showed that the triangle of land at the northwestern point of Eastern Rhodesia from Pweto to as far south as the Lunchinda River was under Northern Rhodesia even though the Belgian Congo had administered it for many years Belgians administered it as a matter of local convenience under a gentlemans agreement Much of this administration was facilitated by the Belgium missionary work in education and health particularly the Roman Catholic Church and Greek fishermen who wanted more fishing points to supply the reported increase in demand for fish in the emerging mine town of Elizabethville now Lubumbashi Later the Belgians wanted to claim this land Over the years during British colonial rule District Commissioners and Provincial Commissioners were asked to provide information on the affected areas by central government authorities in Lusaka The real border issue for the Northern Frontier was reported to be on Lake Tanganyika s Cape Akalunga mentioned in the treaty and described as the point of reference In reality officials had found it difficult to locate this cape British maps show the boundary meeting at Cape Pungu Chitankwa whilst Belgian maps of 1955 show the meeting point at Cape Kipimbi which is far south of Cape Pungu thereby cutting deep into assumed Northern Rhodesian territory During the time of the Central African Federation the Northern Rhodesian F More http booksllc net id 441520