Kaoma, Zambia

Kaoma, earlier and on Lozi Mankoya, is a small market town in the Western Province of Zambia west of the Kafue National Park. It has around 14,000 inhabitants and is accessible from Lusaka on the Great West Road. It is the seat of the administration of the district of the same with 162 568 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

Economy

Kaoma is a rural district. The city is the market for its products. Meanwhile, she has become a tourist destination and develops over their hinterlands beyond. The Kafue National Park is located just east of nearby.

Infrastructure

Kaoma has a 80-bed hospital for the 200,000 people in the district and primary and secondary schools. There are two gas stations and a number of shops, since the place is easy to reach the economic center of the Kafue region and across roads. She also has a small airfield. Kaoma has recently been connected to the national power grid.

Social

In the surrounding area to keep still 150,000 refugees, mainly from Angola, which are cared for by UNHCR, which puts considerable economic boost in Kaoma, because these people can be taught only in cooperation with the local population. This creates jobs and many projects that relate primarily seeds, fertilizers, farming practices, livestock and schools and bring in foreign currency to Zambia. This has now causes in this purely agricultural district a lot of development.

The name comes Kaoma in town as well as a surname common.

Tourism

Each year the Kazanga instead Festival, will be presented at the traditional costumes and choirs. The city center offers a nightlife.