The Luapula Border Dispute Not Quite Dead is it? The Zambia-Congo DR Boundary issue in the Northern part of Zambia between Lunchinda Border post and the town of Pweto appear unsettled at least as far as the latest electoral map of Zambia (2015) and the Official narrative of Chiengi District is concerned. Chiengi Constituency Ward No.1 called Lunchinda Ward clearly sticks to the original international boundary that so many Boundary Commissions have tried to address. The Survey General of Zambia appear not to have conceded the territory in question even when periodically maps from his office come up with many versions. On July 24, 2015 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mbulu quoted in the Lusaka Times of Zambia denied only the Boundary dispute with Congo DR over Lake Tanganyika not the Muliro-Mpweto land mass or the Lunchinda-Mpweto enclave. There is a very comprehensive study, the most recent I have read by J. Donaldson (2010) entitled Marking Terrirritory: Demarcation of the DRC-ZAmbia boundary" (retrieved from www://etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/1/Donaldson Sept 2015) clearly documenting the problematic nature of this border issue particularly on the Luapula/Northern Mweru to Tanganyika. The conclusion is that the 1989 Delimitation Treaty apparently not publicly available was not fully concluded both the ground and in law.As Zambians go to vote in 2016, it appears the people between Lunchinda and Pweto that come under the Zambian Lunchinda Ward will be allowed to cast their votes as a birth right.What this case shows is the casual approach some African countries have or may be the cost problems involved in clearly demarcating boundaries.<ref J. Donaldson (2010)etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/1/Donaldson / www.Lusaka Times.co.za> july 24th 2015 citing Mr Mbulu, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs/>Cheswamsimango
The Luapula Border Dispute Not Quite Dead is it? The Zambia-Congo DR Boundary issue in the Northern part of Zambia between Lunchinda Border post and the town of Pweto appear unsettled at least as far as the latest electoral map of Zambia (2015) and the Official narrative of Chiengi District is concerned. Chiengi Constituency Ward No.1 called Lunchinda Ward clearly sticks to the original international boundary that so many Boundary Commissions have tried to address. The Survey General of Zambia appear not to have conceded the territory in question even when periodically maps from his office come up with many versions. On July 24, 2015 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mbulu quoted in the Lusaka Times of Zambia denied only the Boundary dispute with Congo DR over Lake Tanganyika not the Muliro-Mpweto land mass or the Lunchinda-Mpweto enclave. There is a very comprehensive study, the most recent I have read by J. Donaldson (2010) entitled Marking Terrirritory: Demarcation of the DRC-ZAmbia boundary" (retrieved from www://etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/1/Donaldson Sept 2015) clearly documenting the problematic nature of this border issue particularly on the Luapula/Northern Mweru to Tanganyika. The conclusion is that the 1989 Delimitation Treaty apparently not publicly available was not fully concluded both the ground and in law.As Zambians go to vote in 2016, it appears the people between Lunchinda and Pweto that come under the Zambian Lunchinda Ward will be allowed to cast their votes as a birth right.What this case shows is the casual approach some African countries have or may be the cost problems involved in clearly demarcating boundaries.<ref J. Donaldson (2010)etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/1/Donaldson / www.Lusaka Times.co.za> july 24th 2015 citing Mr Mbulu, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs/>Cheswamsimango