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Six countries in Africa ranked in the top 76 of the 150 global countries in the logistics performance index. Will manufacturing and sourcing move from China to Africa?

With the large economic needs of the African continent, and the rising costs of the countries and continents that previously qualified, <place w:st="on">Africa</place> may be next.  Perhaps it is not imminent, but certainly within your career.  The large labor force available for low tech work may make this the next emerging global sourcing area. In a recent publication by the World Bank six countries in <place w:st="on">Africa</place> ranked in the top 76 of the 150 global countries in the logistics performance index in regard to the reliability of the supply chain.    <country-region w:st="on">South Africa</country-region> (24), <country-region w:st="on">Tunisia</country-region> (60), <country-region w:st="on">Guinea</country-region> (62), <country-region w:st="on">Sudan</country-region> (64) <country-region w:st="on">Mauritania</country-region> (67) and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Kenya</place></country-region> (76) are ranked based on their performance in customs procedures, cost of logistics, infrastructure quality, ability to track and trace shipments and timeliness of reaching the final destination. In a Business Daily Africa article <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Kenya</place></country-region>’s supply chain is described. To read more please <a href="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4088&Itemid=5822" target="_blank">click here:</a> 10 application/xml false Africa global sourcing infrastructure quality Logistics Low tech manufacturing reliability of the supply chain sourcing Supply Chain Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165493 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web