Talk:Yamoussoukro

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N'dri Koffi Apollinaire? Sans blague? D'est un ami... he was Retail Manager at Shell Cote d'Ivoire when I was CEO. His grandmother was Houphet B's sister. --BozMo talk 16:25, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Yamoussoukro and Gbadolite are emphatically not the only airports in Africa that were capable of handling Concorde! In fact, the inaugural passenger flight of Concorde was Paris-Dakar-Rio de Janeiro. Nearly any airport that can handle large passenger jets can handle Concorde. This page states that a runway of 3590 metres is necessary. The list of longest runways includes seven in Africa over 4000 metres (Upington Airport, Harare International Airport, N'djili Airport, Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport, OR Tambo International Airport, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and Hurghada International Airport). In addition, Dakar, Banjul International Airport, Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport and Mohammed V International Airport (Casablanca) were capable of landing the Space Shuttle in an emergency.

While we're on the subject, that sentence is awful. I never knew that an airport could accommodate the Town Hall, the Protestant Temple, the Mosque and the Palace of Hosts! Mr Death 20:12, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Why?
Why is it the capital?
 * The reason Yamoussoukro was chosen is that it is the birthplace of the first President, Houphouet-Boigny. It was intended to help increase development in the interior of the country (like Brasilia did for Brazil and Abuja did for Nigeria), but it was never fully followed through. The city is laid out for expansion and well prepared, but the administrative seat of the government (parlaiment) was not moved, so development stagnated. Alan 02:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

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