Botswana to get link to great lakes region Via Mpulungu Port

The proposed railway line will be diverted from the 1,860 km TAZARA in Kasama, the headquarters of Zambia's Northern province and nearer the Tanzania border. 

Once the railway line connects Mpulungu, Zambia's only port at the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika, goods can be transported from Botswana and South Africa entirely by rail to Lake Tanganyika en route to the Great Lakes Region (GLR) countries of Burundi, and Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).