One of Africa’s oldest serving ships has reached the end of the line. The 64-year-old ferry, which has been plying its trade on Lake Malawi since 1951, has finally been replaced.
The Ilala — named after the place in present-day Zambia where the explorer David Livingstone died in 1873 — has carried an estimated two million passengers and one million tonnes of cargo since 1951, undergoing major renovations in 1990 and 2011.
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