North-South Corridor (Africa)

EENI- School of International Business

Sub-subject: North-South Corridor Aid-for-trade programme (Africa)

Syllabus:

  1. Introduction to the North-South Corridor (Africa)
  2. The main features of the North-South Corridor
  3. Key project of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
  4. Access to eight markets of East and Southern Africa: Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Sub-subject “African North-South Corridor” is studied...
  1. Professional Master's Program in African Business (e-learning)
  2. Doctorate in Business in Africa
  3. Course: Transport in Africa

Languages of study: English or French Afrique Corridors Portuguese Corredor Norte Sur Spanish Corredor Norte Sur

Sample of the sub-subject: North-South Corridor (Africa)
North-South Corridor (Africa)

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Sub-Subject Description (North-South Corridor - Africa).

The North-South Corridor (Africa) (10,647 kilometres) links:

  1. Central Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  2. East Africa: Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania
  3. Southern Africa: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

The North-South Corridor Aid-for-trade programme is a key project of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement:

  1. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
  2. East African Community (EAC)
  3. Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Key features of the North-South Corridor:

  1. Launched in 2009
  2. The estimated cost: 11 billion dollars
  3. Road network: 8,600 kilometres
  4. Rail network: 600 kilometres
  5. The North-South Corridor includes the Dar Es Salaam Corridor and parts of the Trans-Kalahari and Nacala Corridors.
  6. Road transports 95% of exports and imports of the Tripartite region along the North-South Corridor and 5% using the rail network.

The main cities:

  1. Tanzania: Dar Es Salaam, Nguerengere, Morogoro, Kitonga, Iringa, Mafinga, Makambako, Igawa, and Uyole
  2. Malawi: Uyole, Chiweta, Mzuzu, Lilongwe, and Blantyre
  3. Botswana: Gaborone and Francistown
  4. South Africa: Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Durban
  5. Democratic Republic of the Congo: Likasi and Kolwezi
  6. Zimbabwe: Harare and Bulawayo
  7. Zambia: Lusaka and Ndola

Links of the North-South Corridor with other Trans-African corridors:

  1. Cairo-Gaborone

The nearest ports to the North-South Corridor:

  1. Port of Durban (South Africa)
  2. Port of Maputo (Mozambique)
  3. Port of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania)

The main languages: English.

The main religion in the region of the North-South Corridor: Christianity

North-South Corridor belongs to the African Civilisation.

  1. Central African Economic Area
  2. Southern African Economic Area
  3. East African Economic Area


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