 This is exacerbated by the fact that at the Pedicle's toetip, where the Luapula River ostensibly flows out of the Bangweulu system, the river swamps are at least wide and the floodplain is wide, making a road impossible with the resources available for most of the 20th century.The most southerly road possible into Luapula keeping to Zambian territory was pushed, by these circumstances, another north, going around Lake Bangweulu.Strategically the Congo Pedicle is an issue for Zambia, though not for DR Congo.