 Business in the Great Lakes (Africa)
Great Lakes Region (East Africa, Master in Foreign Trade)
The African Region of the Great Lakes (East Africa and Africa central)
is made up of the following African countries:
- Burundi
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
The African Great Lakes are located in the East African Rift Valley.
The main lakes are:
- Lake Victoria (68,100 square kilometres, 82 meters of maximum
depth) is the third largest freshwater lake in the world by surface
- Lake Tanganyika (32,900 square kilometres) is the second largest
freshwater lake in the world by volume
- Other lakes include Lake Malawi, Lake Turkana, Lake Rukwa, Lake Albert,
Lake Moero, Lake Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Kyoga.
- Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika represent 25% of the world surface of
freshwater without freezing
- 10% of the world's fish species
- The population of the African Great Lakes region: 107 million
inhabitants
- Main economic activities: agriculture and fishing (tilapia, perch
of the Nile)
- Kenya is the most industrialised country in the Great Lakes region
The lakes drain into three major African rivers:
- Lake Victoria, Lake Albert and Lake Edward flow into the White Nile
- Lake Tanganyika and Lake Kivu flow into the Congo River
- Lake
Malawi empties into the Zambezi River through the Shire
River
- Lake Turkana is endorheic
- In 1984, Turkana child was discovered, an almost complete
skeleton of a child Homo erectus
Swahili (Bantu)
is the lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region
African regional economic communities
- Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC)
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
- East African Community (EAC)
- COMESA-EAC-SADC
Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
- Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA)
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
- Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC)
- Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Economic integration organisations in the Great Lakes region
Economic Community of the Great Lakes Region (CEPGL)
- The objectives of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries
are to achieve the regional economic development and peace
promotion.
- The member countries are Burundi, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and
Rwanda
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL)
- The objectives of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
are to achieve the regional economic development and peace promotion.
- The headquarters of the International Conference on the Great Lakes
Region are in Bujumbura (Burundi).
- The member countries are Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic,
the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Kenya,
Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan,
Tanzania and Zambia.
- The invited member countries are Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi,
Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe

Nile Basin Initiative (NBI)
- The objective of the Nile Basin Initiative (IBN) is to promote regional
economic integration
- The member countries are Burundi, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo,
Egypt,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda,
South Sudan,
Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda
- Observer country: Eritrea


The largest cities of the Great Lakes region
- Burundi: Bujumbura
- Kenya: Nairobi,
Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret
- Uganda: Kampala, Mbarara,
Gulu
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi, Kananga, Kisangani, Bukavu, Goma
- Rwanda: Kigali, Butare, Gisenyi
- Tanzania: Dodoma,
Dar es Salaam,
Mwanza, Arusha
Grandes Lagos
Grands Lacs
Great Lakes
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