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A gigantic river The Zambezi, Africa's fourth-longest river, is the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean. From its source on the Central African Plateau, in the triangle formed by Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola nearly 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level, it makes a journey of about 2,500 kilometres (1,600 miles) before splitting into a huge delta and finally reaching the ocean. It descends from central to southeast Africa, flowing through Zambia, Angola and Mozambique. In many stretches, the river is the natural border to neighbouring countries such as Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The Zambezi is only commercially navigable for 650 kilometres (400 miles) from its mouth to below the Cahora Bassa dam. Fishing, farming and tourism are the main sources of income for the people living along its banks. The river provides water for drinking and irrigation, fish, and hydroelectric power through the dams at Kariba and Cahora Bassa. Wildlife is abundant in (crocodiles, hippos) and along the river (lions, leopards, elephants and buffaloes). The region includes several national parks and Victoria Falls, the largest sheet of falling water in the world. Yet both development and tourism are being held hostage to malaria, a disease that kills over one million people a year, most of them in Africa.
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