Mchinji

Region

Geography

Mchinji is a city to 1360 meters above sea level in the central region of Malawi with 20,000 inhabitants ( 2006 estimate ) on the border with Zambia. It is located 110 km west of the capital Lilongwe and is capital of the district, which has an area of 3356 km ² and 324 941 inhabitants. Mchinji is the starting point of the railway line towards Lilongwe and on to Mozambique and is located on the paved road from Chipata ( Zambia T4) to Lilongwe ( Malawi M12), has a 1000 meter long airstrip and is connected to the national grid.

Economy

North of town is the 1754 meter high mountain ridges of the Mchinji Hills. He will continue reforested in order to stabilize the area for water management. There are problems with illegal logging and grazing, the contaminated water for 72 villages below. A system of reservoirs, water supply will be expanded in a project of the United Nations. Mchinji is inhabited like the neighboring Chipata in Zambia by Ngoni. It is one of the remotest, poorest and therefore least developed districts of Malawi.

Facilities

In Mchinji another primary school was built in 2006. Illiteracy is common in this region. There is a secondary school with about 700 students, 27 teachers and 12 classrooms as well as a " Medical Center ".

Nationally known the suburb Kachebere is 6km northeast emerged on the M12 by 1903, built by the White Fathers mission station from a Roman Catholic seminary ( Kachebere Major Seminary ). This educational institution came from major Catholic clerics of Zambia and Malawi, the first black Archbishop Chiona Kalilombe Bishop, who had been temporarily placed by the political leaders under house arrest or the first Malawian Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza.

Itemization

• Location in Malawi
• Central Region (Malawi )
• Place in Africa