Africa’s Highest Hotel Price Point is Addis

First hotel on African continent to be operated by Wyndham Hotel Group under management contract, complementing the company’s existing franchised portfolio

 Wyndham Hotel Group (http://www.wyndhamworldwide.com), the world’s largest hotel company based on number of hotels and one of three hospitality business units of Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN), today announced the opening of the 139-room Ramada® Resort Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Complementing Wyndham Hotel Group’s existing portfolio of...

Renting an apartment in upscale areas of Dar es Salaam is the costliest in East Africa.

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Living in commercial capitals is always expensive but Dar es Salaam may be the most expensive in the East African region pushed by costly renting in its posh areas.

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Despite the increasing number of tall buildings in the city, the supply of housing is yet to match the rising demand, a move that has kept rents higher than those of commercial capitals of Kenya and Uganda.

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The global drive to end extreme poverty will not succeed without a shift in focus to the very poorest

 A new funding plan to deliver basic health and education for everyone is essential to end extreme poverty, according to The ONE Campaign’s DATA Report 2015: “Putting the Poorest First,” (http://www.one.org) which was launched today in Abidjan, in the margins of the African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings.

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*The latest report from Think Security Africa is the organisation’s fifth annual review on security in Africa

The latest report from Think Security Africa (http://www.thinksecurityafrica.org) is the organisation’s fifth annual review on security in Africa. It assesses changes in Africa’s security situation between 2013 and 2014 in three main categories: (1) Challenges impacting the national chain of command, (2) Maintaining territorial integrity, and (3) Societal management.

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