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Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire - Francophone
Renaissance
The principal stock exchange of the
country, the Bourse Régionale des
Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), is
located in the city. Air Afrique was
headquartered in Abidjan. Major
industries include food processing,
lumber, automobile manufacturing,
and the manufacture of textiles,
chemicals, and soap. There is also a
large oil refinery. There are production of Clean Energy from
biomass and Municipal Solid Waste. Environmental
companies, are getting the
Akouedo landfill in the production
of the Electricity and /or bio-fuel
from an average of 1000 tons/day
garbage dumped over 3000 tons/day
generated by the town of Abidjan.
Trains on the line to Ouagadougou
run from several stations in the
city, the most important being in
Treichville. Ferries link
Treichville, Abobo-Doumé and Le
Plateau. Felix Houphouet Boigny
International Airport serves the
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Accra, Ghana - Fast Growing West
African Giant
Accra is
a major centre for manufacturing,
marketing, finance, insurance,
transportation and tourism. It has
about 350 major industrial
establishments, a Central Bank, 9
Commercial Banks (with 81 Branches),
4 Development Banks (with 19
Branches), 4 Merchant Banks (with 7
Branches), 3 Discount Houses, 1 Home
Finance Mortgage Bank, Building
Societies, a Stock exchange, 218
Foreign Exchange Bureaux, 9 Finance
Houses, 9 Insurance Companies, 12
Insurance Brokerage Firms, 2 Savings
and Loans Companies and a host of
Real Estate Developers. There are
over 50,506 identified residential
properties and about 4,054
commercial/Industrial/mixed
properties with a total rateable
value of GH¢13,849,014. There are
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Cairo, Egypt - The Pearl Of The
North
Cairo is in every respect the center of
Egypt, as it has been almost since
its founding in 969 AD. With a
population of 18.8 million, almost
25% of all Egyptians live there. The
majority of the nation's commerce is
generated there, or passes through
the city. The great majority of
publishing houses and media outlets
and nearly all film studios are
there, as are half of the nation's
hospital beds and universities. This
has fueled rapid construction in the
city—one building in five is less
than 15 years old. This astonishing
growth until recently surged well
ahead of city services. Homes,
roads, electricity, telephone and
sewer services were all suddenly in
short supply. Analysts trying to
grasp the magnitude of the change
coined terms like
"hyper-urbanization". Cairo also
have several Automobile assemblers
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Dar
es Salaam, Tanzania - Beauty And
Business Hand In Hand
Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's most
important city for both business and
government. The city contains
unusually high concentrations of
trade and other services and
manufacturing compared to other
parts of Tanzania, which has about
80 percent of its population in
rural areas. For example, about one
half of Tanzania's manufacturing
employment is located in the city
despite the fact that Dar holds only
ten percent of Tanzania's
population. Located on a natural
harbour on the Indian Ocean, it is
the hub of the Tanzanian
transportation system as all of the
country's main railways and several
highways originate in or near the
city. Its status as an
administrative and trade centre has
put Dar es Salaam in position to
benefit disproportionately from
Tanzania's high growth rate since
the year 2000 so that by now its
poverty rates are much lower than
the rest of the country. The
Benjamin William Mkapa Pension Tower
with more than 21 stories is the
tallest building in the city and the
country.
Air Tanzania, the national airline,
has its head office in Dar es
Salaam.
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Gaborone, Botswana - small (Cute)
but Resourceful
Gaborone is the center of the
national economy. The headquarters
of important financial institutions
such as the Bank of Botswana, Bank
Gaborone, Banc ABC, and the Botswana
Stock Exchange are located downtown,
as well as the headquarters for Air
Botswana, Consumer Watchdog,
Botswana Telecommunications
Corporation, and Debswana, the joint
diamond mining venture between De
Beers and the Botswana government.
The Southern African Development
Community (SADC) has its
headquarters in Gaborone; the
organization was formed in 1980 to
increase economic cooperation among
its members and reduce dependence on
South Africa. Several international
companies have invested in the city:
Hyundai, IBM, Daewoo, Volvo,
Owens-Corning, and Siemens.
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Harare, Zimbabwe - Recovering From
Recent political And Economic Unrest
Harare has been the location of
several international summits such
as the 8th Summit of the Non-Aligned
Movement (1986) and Commonwealth
Heads of Government Meeting 1991.
The latter produced the Harare
Declaration, dictating the
membership criteria of the
Commonwealth. The public transport
system within the city includes both
public and private sector
operations. The former consist of
ZUPCO buses and National Railways of
Zimbabwe commuter trains.
Privately-owned public transport
comprised licensed station wagons,
nicknamed emergency taxis until the
mid-1990s, when they were replaced
by licensed buses and minibuses,
referred to officially as commuter
omnibuses. The National Railways of
Zimbabwe operates a daily overnight
passenger train service that runs
from Harare to Mutare and another
one from Harare to Bulawayo. Harare
is linked by long distance bus
services to most parts of Zimbabwe.
Harare International Airport serves
Harare.
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Johannesburg, South Africa -
Africa's Economic Powerhous
Johannesburg is one of the world's
leading financial centres and it is
the economic and financial hub of
South Africa, producing 16% of South
Africa's gross domestic product, and
accounts for 40% of Gauteng's
economic activity. In a 2007 survey
conducted by MasterCard,
Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top
cities in the world as a worldwide
centre of commerce. The city's
manufacturing industries extend
across a range of areas and there is
still a reliance on heavy industries
including steel and cement plants.
The service and other industries
include banking, IT, real estate,
transport, broadcast and print
media, private health care,
transport and a vibrant leisure and
consumer retail market. Johannesburg
has Africa's largest stock exchange,
the JSE. The container terminal at
City Deep is known to be the largest
"dry port" in the world, with some
60% of cargo that arrives through
the ports of Durban and Cape Town
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Khartoum, Sudan - Old City Shows Its
Business Age
Khartoum has a thriving economy. In
recent years Khartoum has seen
significant development, driven by
Sudan's oil wealth. The center of
the city is well-planned, with
tree-lined streets. However,
Khartoum has the highest
concentration of economic activity
in the country. This is slowly
changing as major economic
developments take place in other
parts of the country, like oil
exploration in the South, the Giad
Industrial Complex and White Nile
Sugar Project in Central Sudan, and
the Merowe Dam in the North. Among
the city's industries are printing,
glass manufacturing, food
processing, and textiles. Petroleum
products are now produced in the far
north of Khartoum state, providing
fuel and jobs for the city. One of
Sudan's largest refineries is
located in northern Khartoum.
Moreover, a number of East-Asian
companies have recently shown
interest in the realization of a new
project which will lead to the
creation of new telecommunication
services throughout the country.
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