Harare small military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort Salisbury after the British prime minister Lord Salisbury. Company administrators demarcated the city and ran it until Southern Rhodesia achieved responsible government in 1923. Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, the capital of the Central African Federation. It retained the name Salisbury until 1982, when it was renamed Harare on the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence. Harare is Zimbabwe's leading political, financial, commercial, and communications centre, as well as a trade centre for tobacco, maize, cotton, and
African Export–Import Bank African Export–Import Bank African Export–Import Bank, also referred to as Afreximbank, is an African financial institution, headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, whose primary objective is to promote and finance trade within the African continent and trade between Africa and other continents. The headquarters of Afreximbank is located at 72 (B) El Maahad El Eshteraky Street, Heliopolis, Cairo, the capital and largest city in Egypt. The bank maintains a branch office at 2 Gnassingbe Eyadema Street, Asokoro, Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. The bank's second branch office is located at Eastgate Building, Third Floor, North Wing, Gold Bridge, Harare, the capital