Kariyangwe

Kariyangwe is a settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, about 60 kilometres south of Binga. It grew up around Kariyangwe Mission, the first mission set up by the Spanish missionaries who arrived in the country in 1949. The residents are Tonga people, who originally lived on the banks of the Zambezi and were resettled to the present area when the Kariba Dam was built in the 1950s. As of 2019 about 10,000 people lived in the Kariyangwe area. The mission runs a hospital operated by sisters, without a permanent medical doctor, and the hospital has two off-grid photovoltaic systems to keep a basic electricity supply going.