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Location of Chibombo town and district in Central Province, Zambia. Chibombo is a town in the Central Province of Zambia, and is headquarters of Chibombo District. The town lies near the Lukanga Swamp. It is 95 km north of Lusaka and 45 km south-west of Kabwe on the Great North Road.
Chibombo District is a district of Central Province, Zambia. As of the 2022 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 421,315 people. [1] [2] It consists of two constituencies, namely Keembe and Katuba. Its headquarters are at Chibombo, and it lies between the Lukanga Swamp in the west and the end of the Luangwa Valley in the east.
Chisamba District was created in 2013 (by splitting Chibombo District), due to the efforts of Zambian president Michael Sata. The first District Commissioner was Ferdinard Chipindi. [ 4 ] The district's founding was possible due to land given for district development by Chief Chamuka of the Lenje speaking people . [ 5 ]
As of 2013, Chisamba, before a part of Chibombo District, was declared a district on its own by the President, Michael Sata. [6] As of 2015, Ngabwe, before a part of Kapiri Mposhi District, was declared a district on its own, with a proposal for it to become Zambia's new capital city by former infrastructure minister Lucky Mulusa.
Chisamba is a small town located near Chibombo, in the Central Province of Zambia. It is located roughly 60 miles (97 km) north of Lusaka. In February 2013 a bus crash killed 53 people near Chisamba. [1] The Protea Hotel Safari Lodge Hotel is located in Chisamba. Chisamba, once part of Chibombo District, is now its own district. [2]
The ten provinces of Zambia are divided into a total of 116 districts as of 2018.. Article 109 in part VIII of the constitution of Zambia deals with local government.It states only that there should be some form of local government, and that this local government should be based on democratically elected councils on the basis of universal adult suffrage.
Katuba is a constituency of the National Assembly of Zambia. It covers the rural area to the north-west of Lusaka in the Chibombo District of Central Province . [ 1 ]
On 7 February 2013, a bus collided with a semi-truck and a sport utility vehicle on the Great North Road, [2] between the towns of Chibombo and Kabwe in the Central Province of Zambia, [3] resulting in the deaths of 49 of the 73 persons on the bus, [4] [5] and of the truck driver and his assistant. [6] [7] [8] A further 28 people were injured. [3]