Somali companies and bussiness people doing it big in africa!

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Integrated Property Investments Limited

 

 

IPITL has acquired land measuring 200 acres in the Bahari Beach Area of Ununio in Dar es Salaam for development of the self sustained, independent state of the art satellite city comprising of the following:-

 

• Executive villas, townhouses and apartments

• Five Star Hotel

• Hospital

• Recreational centre school (nursery & primary school)

• Nursery and Primary School

• Service station

• Shopping Mall not less than 40,000 sqm comprising of banking facilities, night clubs, restaurants, supermarkets, cinema halls and many other facilities required in a big mall.

• Ferry service that will link the rich, sandy Bahari Beach to the main Dar es salaam port on the one hand, and the exotic Zanzibar islands on the others.

Bahari Beach Town is designed to become a self contained satellite city providing family – friendly environment for potential resident populations of 10,000 people, while its commercial units could serve additional 1,000,000 people within easy connecting area.

 

Location

 

The Project is located approximately 30km from the city centre and covering of about 200 acres within the beautiful Bahari Beach Area. The area is well connected to the electricity and water supply from the mains. It is easily accessible from the city centre and other places of interest via the New Bagamoyo road.

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Garun Investment Ltd

 

 

Garun Investment Ltd has been in the business of import and export since 2001. Garun back then, opened its first office in Guangzhou city, and Yiwu city, China, famous for Spring and Fall trade fair. Garun has ventured into public buildings and commercial space development in large cities such Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya.

 

Garun's founding partners have vast experience in organizing successful businesses for more than a decade. Core business area of Garun Investment is real estate development along with construction activities of varying building sizes. Since 2006, Garun Investment Limited has been primarily concerned in acquiring valuable lands for potential redevelopment while it at the same time started building housing units for families in Nairobi such as Eastleigh, Parkland, and Seka Mow.

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Amina Moghe Hersi (Somali: Aamina Mooge Xirsi) (b. 1963) is an award-winning Somali entrepreneur. She has launched several multi-million dollar projects in Kampala, Uganda, such as the luxury mall the Oasis Centre and the Laburnam Courts. She also runs Kingstone Enterprises Limited, one of the largest distributors of cement and other hardware materials in Kampala.

 

Oasis Centre Mall - Kampala, Uganda

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African Express Airways - Kenya

 

 

From Orphan to Airline owner.

 

By Samwel Kumba and Justus Ondari

 

Seeing him seated in his spacious office along North Airport Road, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), one would be forgiven for assuming that Captain Musa Bulhan has had it easy in life. For Capt. Musa, the proprietor and chief executive of African Express Airways, is the first African to own an airline with landing rights in Europe.

 

Besides, the 59 year-old was among the first Kenyans to acquire the highest pilot qualifications- an airline transport pilot license-in 1974. But behind the ‘firsts and accolades’, Capt. Musa’s life is one hit by tragedy at a tender age and littered by internecine ‘wars’ thrown at him by both nature and man. Robbed of parental love, first by the death of his mother when he was a toddler, and then his father at 15, the decorated career pilot was forced to start fending for himself literally before he was out of the diapers.

 

Four years down the line, at an age when most of his playmates probably still believed that their fathers were the strongest people on earth, a gangling of a boy with intelligence beyond his age made a startling career choice- to become a pilot. Unbeknown to him, the knack to survive was to be implanted in the young Musa right from the very day he decided to be a pilot. Many of the industry players he approached dismissed him as a joker.

 

“Many tried to frighten and discourage me from the profession but everything they threw at me made me even more enthusiastic. They would instruct me to wake up at 4.00 am and check the oil or tyres of an aircraft. They would give me tests on all sorts of jargon which I could not understand. Then they would call me names. If I were fainthearted and uninterested in the training, I would have dropped out. I survived the ordeal,” reminisces the captain. However, not all people were bad and many, including the government which gave him a scholarship, came to his rescue when the going got tough.

 

“In fact, I did not have much of a problem because I got a lot of help.”

Musa was to undergo training in the United Kingdom and later in the United States after joining the defunct East African Airways. When it collapsed with the collapse of the then East African Community (EAC) in 1977, Kenya Airways (KQ) was formed. Obviously, there were too many pilots for the few airplanes the then nascent KQ had. “I felt it was high time for someone to give room. Unfortunately, I would not tell anyone else to get out. I told myself to give room with my meager Ksh 270,000 benefits,”

 

Aviation business

 

It was then that Capt. Musa decided to set up an airline. He floated the idea to the then ministry of Power and Communication but the ministry officials felt it could not work. Thinking they were getting rid of him, they gave him a temporary operating permit for him to set up the famous Pioneer Airlines at Wilson Airport in 1978.

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Kenyan investments

 

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Tansoma Hotel - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

 

Oceanic Bay Hotel - Bagamoyo, Tanzania

 

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Hashi energy [east african energy company]

 

 

 

 

Hashi Energy Ltd was founded in Kenya in 1991 by Mr & Mrs. Hashi. The company was known as Hashi Empex Ltd before undergoing corporate re-branding in 2008

 

 

 

Hashi Energy Ltd started out as a Kerosene distributor for Chevron Kenya Ltd then known as Caltex Oil Kenya Ltd. The Company engaged in filling Kerosene Jerricans in Mombasa and distributing to Rwanda and DRC markets. These markets were challenging, with unfavourable terrains and political instability.

 

In the mid 1990s Hashi Energy acquired depots in Eldoret and Kisumu and used these facilities to supply Kerosene to the western Kenyan market and to export to DRC, Rwanda and Burundi.

 

In 1996 Hashi Energy Uganda Ltd was incorporated as a subsidiary to Hashi Energy Ltd. The company began selling bulk fuel to customers in Uganda and DRC. In 2001 the company acquired a depot in Jinja which was used as an operational hub for the Uganda market. Thereafter the company acquired several service stations and mini depots in Jinja, Kampala and its neighboring towns.

 

In 2007 Hashi Rwanda SARL was formed in Kigali, 2 years later the company acquired 2 service stations in Kigali.

 

Our Business

 

Hashi Energy’s core business is importation, distribution and marketing of refined petroleum products; the company is one of the oldest indigenous oil marketing companies in Kenya.

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The area of Bazaruto Archipelago is one of the protected National Parks of Mozambique and all the islands have no roads, no shops, no tourist attractions; it is just fantastic natural beauty. Hotel Âncora de Vilankulo, is the gate-way of the Bazaruto Archipelago at Vilankulo without the lofty cost of staying at the islands. Moreover, get sense of the culture Vilankulo town and the history of Inhambane Province, terra de bom gente. Visit the local markets and shop from the art exhibitions. Hotel Âncora de Vilankulo is easily accessible, located just 15 minutes by car from the Vilankulo National Airport.

 

We are about 700 km from Maputo city and approximately 2 hours flight from Johannesburg. Hotel Âncora de Vilankulo wraps you in comfort, provides you with the best of culinary delights, and leaves you to have some of the most exhilarating experiences you have ever had in your life time - either on land or at sea. So, why wait? Take the opportunity to realize your dream at Complexo Âncora de Vilankulo.

 

Hotel Âncora de Vilankulo presents you the opportunity to experience the unaffected charm of the Bazaruto Archipelago of Mozambique which consists of 5 tropical islands (Bazaruto,Benguera, Margaruque, Banque and Santa Carolina). The area offers an ideal vacation of a life time, by presenting to you with unspoiled coral beaches, scuba diving, sknokling, top-notch deep sea fishing and salt water fly fishing.

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Somali transpoort companies move africa....

 

Somali operators (both Somalian and Kenyan-Somalis) have established direct bus lines such as E-couch, Maslah, Crown and Garissa Bus. These buses also link Nairobi to other East African capitals and major cities. In Nairobi, Somalis have also entered the matatu (minibus) business, which began as an informal mode of transport but was later legalized and now forms a key part of the public transportation system.

 

In the last 17 years, over ten Somali trucking companies have been formed in Kenya. With an initial capital investment of around $5 million each these now show substantial annual profits of around $20 million.

Leading companies such as Awale, Tipper Freighters, Dakawe and Ainu-Shamsi Transporters own hundreds of trucks each. There are also many individually owned and run truck companies operating with two to six trucks, and this growing sector plays a very significant role in Kenyan transport market.

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Zambia: Oil Firm to Invest K3.5 Billion in Kasama Filling Station

 

22 December 2011

 

In an effort to expand operations in Zambia, a local firm Continental Oil Company has undertaken to invest K3.5 billion in the construction of a new filling station in Kasama to serve Northern Province.

 

Company representative Osman Farah said in Kitwe yesterday that, the nine- month project was expected to commence in the first week of January, 2012. Continental Oil Company is a Zambian registered company owned by a Somali with its presence in Ndola, Kapiri Mposhi and Mpika.

 

Mr Farah said the proposed Continental Oil Company modern filling station is located at Plot Number Six, Mbala Road in the Kasama Central Business District.

 

The company has fuel depots with the capacity of 2.5 million litres, while an additional 3.5 million litres would be included to expand capacity to six million litres

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Hass Petroleum -

 

Founded in 1997 by two brothers, the late Abdirizak Ali Hassan and Abdinasir Ali Hassan, the HASS Petroleum Group is a regional Oil Marketing Company (OMC) with significant presence in East Africa and the Great Lakes region. From its humble beginnings as a fuel re-seller, the company is now one of the most renowned oil marketers, with fully fledged operating business units in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Southern Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

 

 

 

 

With its corporate headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, the company’s core business is the importation, distribution and marketing of petroleum products in countries where we have registered business units. The company also has invested significantly in retail outlets - petrol stations - and sizable oil storage terminals. The company's recently commissioned oil terminal in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has an installed capacity of 34 million liters, and serves our southern corridor markets of Tanzania, and the neighboring landlocked countries of D.R.C. - Katanga Province, Rwanda, Burundi and Zambia. The northern corridor markets - Kenya, Uganda, Southern Sudan, and D.R.C. (North-East provinces) - are served by imports via Kenya's Mombasa port.

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Two years ago the once booming real estate sector in Dubai was hit by the global financial crisis, which saw numerous multi-million projects shelved. However, at the time, Eng. Adnan Saffarini Office (EAS), a leading architectural and engineering design consultancy in United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has designed some of the world’s tallest buildings, set base in Africa to explore new opportunities on the continent. The firm’s regional director for Africa, Mahad Mohamud Karani, told How we made it in Africa’s Dinfin Mulupi about the firm’s mission to ‘bring Dubai to Africa’.

 

Tell us a bit more about EAS

 

Eng. Adnan Saffarini Office was founded in 1968 and has years of experience from back when Dubai was a desert to the beautiful global city and business hub that it is today. We are a one-stop shop offering a wide array of services ranging from concept design interior and landscape design, tendering, project management and supervision. We have designed numerous landmark buildings including the 414 metre high Princess Tower, which is the world’s tallest residential building located in the Marina district of Dubai.

 

What inspired the entry into Africa?

 

In the last few years we were working on a project called the Falconcity of Wonders, which would replicate the Seven Wonders of the World such as the Egyptian Pyramid, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China and the leaning Tower of Pisa, among others. However, after the global economic crisis in 2008 we stopped the project. Dubai is already a landmark and we thought, why not bring such a concept to Africa? We opened our offices in Kenya, which we believe is the heart of Africa. We are currently working on some projects in Rwanda, including a luxury city in Kigali. We are also designing a hotel in South Sudan. In Kenya we are working on a US$7m five-star hotel, a 62,000 m2 shopping mall which will be the region’s largest, and a $5m mosque in Nairobi. We have some work in the pipeline in Somalia as well [and are] waiting for the country’s situation to stabilise.

What do you seek to achieve in Africa?

 

We want to change concepts. Our goal is to bring Dubai to Africa. We want to bring Dubai malls and other landmark projects here. As the growing population and urbanisation puts pressure on land, we want to add value by designing tall buildings and skyscrapers set on very small pieces of land. For instance, the mosque we are designing in Nairobi will be built on a half an acre and host up to 5,000 worshippers and will also have other amenities like schools, shops and clinics. This creates more value for land. In Africa, we are thinking about the future. We want to design projects like Falconcity, bringing all the continent’s landmarks to one location. There is a lot of demand for housing in Africa, which creates a big opportunity for us.

 

Describe some of the challenges you have faced in Africa?

 

Our profile in designing big projects has been a disadvantage. People have the impression that we do not do small-scale projects. We have had to reassure local investors that we do small projects of very high quality and unique designs.

Mahad Mohamud Karani, EAS's regional director for Africa

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my friend is in the DRC. he's digging for all sorts. he's making money, walle.

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More on Somali bussiness at the following link

 

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1300633

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Alpha Blondy;942495 wrote:

my friend is in the DRC. he's digging for all sorts. he's making money, walle.

Indeed the returns anywhere in africa are really expotential........