Kafue

[kuh-foo-ey, kah-]

noun

1. a river in S central Africa, flowing SE along the Zaire-Zambia border and then SW and E through Zambia to the Zambezi River above Kariba Lake. About 600 miles (965 km) long.

Example Sentences

The company had initially reported that only 50,000 tonnes of waste material had spilled into waterways that connect to the Kafue River, near the northern city of Kitwe.

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Authorities have since imposed a fishing ban on the Kafue River and deployed the air force and speedboats to drop lime to reduce acidity levels in the affected waterways.

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The spill happened when a tailings dam, used to store toxic waste and heavy metals, collapsed into the Kafue River, a key drinking water source, following heavy rain.

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Earlier this year, the entire water supply to Kitwe, home to about 700,000 people, was shut down after a catastrophic spill of waste from a nearby Chinese-owned copper mine into the streams that flow through neighbourhoods like Wusakile into one of Zambia's most important waterways, the Kafue River.

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Mr Cherry and wife Shirley, from Warwickshire, were in the third week of their dream trip when disaster struck on the Kafue River and he ended up wedged in the animal's jaws.

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