Cuamba

Cuamba is a city and district in Niassa Province in northern Mozambique, northwest of Mount Namuli, on the EN8 road linking Nampula in the east with the Malawian border in the west. It began as a military outpost of the Niassa Company, a Portuguese royal charter company, and took the name of a small local kingdom, becoming the official name in 1937. It was called Nova Freixo from 1952, after the birthplace of a colonial governor-general, and reverted to Cuamba in 1976. The city is a railway junction where the Nacala line from Malawi to the port of Nacala meets the branch to Lichinga, and it has an airport and an agricultural school of the Catholic University of Mozambique.