Business in the Great Lakes (Africa)

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Economic Community of the Great Lakes Region: Victoria, Tanganyika, Kivu, Albert

The African Region of the Great Lakes (East Africa and Central Africa) is made up of the following African countries:

Students from the Great Lakes region

Students, Great Lakes region

The African Great Lakes are located in the East African Rift Valley. The main lakes are:

Lake Victoria (68,100 km², 82 meters of maximum depth) is the third largest freshwater lake in the world by surface
Lake Tanganyika (32,900 km²) 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
1. 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 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 DR Congo (DRC) and Rwanda

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 DR Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.
The invited member countries are Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe

Economic Community of the Great Lakes Region: Burundi, the DR Congo (DRC), and Rwanda

Nile Basin Initiative (NBI)

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

Nile Basin Initiative (Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania)

African Northern Corridor (Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda)

The largest cities of the Great Lakes region