In 2022 the local Rivi Rivi River which feeds the Shire River diverted by about 500 metres as the result of rainfall and Tropical Storm Ana. A village called Chipanga and a railway line was under threat. The river was preventing people from using the existing road. The local MP Ireen Mambala organised a negotiation with four local families in Nkaya for a new route to be established across their crops. Mambala made them a present of two bags of maize and some money and thanked them publicly for their munificence.[1]
Its economy is predominantly agricultural, but it has an important logistics sector, as it serves as the junction point of the country's road-rail systems.[2]
Transport
The city's railway station serves as the junction of the national railway network, between the Sena railway and the Nacala railway.[3][4]
^Nacala Railway Line. Virtual PIDA Information Centre - Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa. 2021.
^Placido, Antonio; Marchesini, Marco; Cerreta, Vincenzo. The importance of railways for developing countries. The feasibility study for the rehabilitation of the Mchinji to Nkaya rail line in Malawi. In.: Transport Infrastructure and Systems. CRC Press. 1st Edition. 2017.
