maintains and manages the Kariba dam on behalf of the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The structural integrity of the 55-year-old, 128-m-high dam wall has been compromised over the years by ...

At the time of its construction, the Kariba Dam was known as “one of the engineering wonders of the world,” a double-curvature, concrete-arch, dam wall standing at a height of 128 meters above ...

Climate change and neglect have brought the mammoth structure at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe to the brink of calamity — a crisis prefigured in the dam’s troubling colonial history.

Kariba — Zimbabwe and Zambia yesterday said the Kariba Dam wall is stable following a tour of the infrastructure by senior Government officials from the two countries. Some media reports had ...

THE Kariba Dam wall will undergo a $294,2 million rehabilitation programme of the six spill gates and remodelling of the plunge pool beginning next year, a senior government official has said.

A large pool carved out by opening the sluice gates has eroded the integrity of the wall, which may collapse within the next three years. The foundation of the Kariba Dam wall is eroding and has to be ...

HARARE, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The rehabilitation of the Kariba Dam wall is progressing well with works being 67 percent complete, said the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), a bi-national organization ...

AT LEAST 3,5 million people in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia are in danger amid disclosures that the Kariba Dam wall has developed “serious structural weaknesses” which need to be ...