In August 2007 the governments of Zambia
and Botswana announced a deal to construct a bridge at the site to replace the
ferry. The existence of a short boundary of about 150 meters between Zambia and
Botswana was apparently agreed to during various meetings involving heads of
state and/or officials from all four states in the 2006-10 period and is
clearly shown in the African Development Fund project map, (matching the US
Department of State Office of the Geographer depiction in Google Earth.) Thus,
Botswana has only about 150 meters of river frontage on the Zambezi, being
sandwiched on the south
