Nairobi ranked Africa's best city to work in ▷ Kenya News

- The survey attributed the high rank to Nairobi's fair weather and friendly people

- It ranked Nairobi position 45 globally and the top city to work in Africa

- The report analysed five areas of expatriate life including urban towns, getting settled, work-life balance among others.

Nairobi has been ranked the best city to work in Africa, a new survey has indicated.

The survey shows Nairobi emerged 45th out of 82 cities ranked worldwide beating Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Nairobi was ranked as the best city to work in Africa.Photo:Nairobi Wire.
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According to the survey carried out by Internations, the largest community of expats, respondents said they had picked Kenya's capital for it was easy to settle in and therefore ranked it third worldwide.

The survey attributed Nairobi's high rank to friendly residents and fair weather which attracts expatriates to the city.

" 82% of the respondents described the locals as friendly and 62% found it easy to make friends in the city," the report said.

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The survey interviewed more than 20,000 respondents in 82 cities around the globe. Johannesburg came 59th and Cape Town was ranked 65th in the Expat City Ranking.

Johannesburg came 59th in the ranking.Photo:Cde.org.za.
Source: UGC

Lagos was position 79, appearing squarely among the bottom 10 ten in the list.

It analysed five areas of expatriate life including quality of urban towns, getting settled, work-life balance among others.

This comes a month after a new report showed Kenya had retained its position as the third most attractive market for investments in the continent for the second year running according to a new report published by Africa Financial Markets Index 2019.

The East African economic giant was ranked third behind South Africa and Mauritius with a net score of 65 out of 100 points.

The report attributed Nairobi's high position to substantive issuance of government debt instruments to investors in 2018 including new sovereign bond listings.

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