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FASTEST GROWING CITIES IN THE WORLD (2010-2025)   CITY COUNTRY % INCREASE IN URBAN POPULATION WORLD RANK Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 127.1 1 Lilongwe Malawi 106.4 2 Blantyre-Limbe Malawi 106.3 3 Yamoussoukro Cote d’Ivoire 103.0 4 Niamey Niger 101.0 5 Kampala Uganda 99.5 6 Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania 85.2 7 Kananga Democratic Republic of Congo 80.3 12 Kigali Rwanda 79.9 13 Kisangani Democratic Republic of Congo 79.8 14 Mombasa Kenya 79.0 15 Mbuji-Mayi Democratic Republic of Congo 78.6 16 Lumumbashi Democratic...

  RANK COUNTRY MILLIONAIRES 2012 1 South Africa 48,000 2 Egypt 23,000 3 Nigeria 15,900 4 Kenya 8,400 5 Tunisia 6,500 6 Angola 6,400 7 Tanzania 5,700 8 Libya 5,400 9 Morocco 4,900 10 Algeria 4,100 Source: New World Wealth  

Thirty-six African countries were among the 142 covered in the 2013 Global Innovation Index (GII 2013). The theme for this year's index was  "The...

 CITYGLOBAL RANK/120AFRICA RANKSCORE/100CHANGE FROM 2012Johannesburg,South Africa 66 1 50.5 +3.5Cape Town, S.A.77247.4+ 4.8Durban, S.A.95342.9+2.9Cairo, Egypt106438.5+3.5Nairobi, Kenya112536.9+1.0Alexandria, Egypt117634.6+4.6Lagos, Nigeria119729.0+0.1Source: Economist Intelligence Unit  

Africa’s millionaires are getting younger and younger, which is not surprising for a continent that has the world’s largest youth population. Close to 70...

The construction of hotels, malls and mixed-use buildings is consistent with Africa’s rising middle class coupled with the lack of formal retail infrastructure. Africa’s...

According to the World Nuclear Association, an umbrella group for individuals and organizations in the nuclear profession, the use of nuclear power to generate...

RANK CITY COUNTRY 1 Accra Ghana 2 Lusaka Zambia 3 Luanda Angola 4 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 5 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 6 Nairobi Kenya 7 Kampala Uganda 8 Johannesburg South Africa 9 Kinshasa Dem. Republic of Congo 10 Durban South Africa * Rankings are based on data for the following variables from 2009-2011 GDP per capita growth ...

  AIRPORT COUNTRY PASSENGERS/YR 2011 % CHANGE FROM 2010 OR Tambo International South Africa 18,922,346 + 2.9% Cairo International Egypt 13,037,541 -19.3% Cape Town International South Africa 8,436,562 +4.1% Mohammed V International Morocco 7,290,314 +0.6% Murtala Muhammed International Nigeria 6,748,290 +7.6% Hurghada International Egypt 5,875,423 -25.9% Jomo Kenyatta International Kenya 5,803,635 +5.8% Sharm el-Sheikh International Egypt 5,476,388 -27% Bole International Ethiopia 5,054,213 +25% King Shaka...

The African Development Bank reports in Tracking Africa’s Progress in Figures that Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city and the country’s trading hub, will...