Pedra de Lume is a small settlement on Sal´s northeast coast that has grown around a tiny port. After long years of only being a stopover for turtle hunters, the interest in the island began to rose when Manuel António Martins started the exploitation of the salt ponds in the nearby crater in 1796. Water […]
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Lilongwe – The world´s largest Tobacco Auction House – Im weltgrößten Tabak-Auktionshaus
The world´s largest Tobacco Auction House is part of the Auction Holdings Limited, a group of companies offering the Malawian tobacco farmers a strictly limited and regulated trade platform for their tobacco. All the Malawian tobacco harvest goes to the auction house after drying, being sold in the few weeks of harvest. Either the farmer […]
Toliara (Tuléar)
Toliara (Tuléar) is the biggest and most important city in southwestern Madagascar. Once in the past, rebels had blown up a bridge on the way from the capital Antananarivo to it´s most significant port Toamasina (Tamatave) at the east coast. That was when the government bought Toliara a deepwater port as well as a 1.000-kilometre-long […]
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