Following the 1889 Berlin conference and the ensuing Scramble for Africa by European powers, there was considerable interest by the Belgians, the Germans and the British in Southern and Central Africa to secure the area that covered the 4 Great Lakes namely, Lake Nyasa, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.
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Chienge is an area in the Northern part of Zambia, on the white shores of Lake Mweru.
Lake Mweru marks the boundary between Nchelenge and Congo DR.
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Kanyembo is the principal centre of the population on the Mofwe Lagoon, the largest of several lagoons in the Luapula River swamps south of Lake Mweru, in the Luapula Province of Zambia.
Lusenga Plain National Park is a national park in the Kawambwa District, Northern Province of Zambia, to the east of Lake Mweru.
At the 1884–85 Berlin Conference and related bilateral negotiations between Britain and Belgium, the land west and north of the Luapula River−Lake Mweru system (Katanga) was allocated to the CFS while the land to the east and south was allocated to Britain and the BSAC.
After Msiri’s death the Luapula valley was divided in 1894 between Britain — the eastern shores of the Luapula and Lake Mweru became part of North-Eastern Rhodesia, administered by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) — and King Leopold II of Belgium’s misnamed Congo Free State (CFS), or rather its agent, the Compagnie du Katanga, which took over the western shores.
Lake Mweru, a fresh water lake was described by the famous Dr David Livingstone as a huge water body where 'a black wall of mountains frowned its western side, but elsewhere its banks were flat.
The European missionary and explorer David Livingston "discovered" Lake Mweru in 1867, and formed the theory that the Luvua flowed to the Upper Nile.
Lake Mweru Wantipa - a small lake between Lake Mweru and Lake Tanganyika
In 2001 a large motorised barge was launched to carry trucks laden with concentrated copper ore from the Dikulushi Mine in DR Congo across Lake Mweru to Nchelenge, from where they travel to Namibia.