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加纳总统启动希望之城建设计划 Ghana's President John Mahama has launched a project to build a $10bn IT hub near the capital, Accra, within three years.‎ 加纳总统约翰·马哈马宣布启动一项价值100亿美元的工程，该工程将于三年内在首都阿克拉附近建设一座IT中心。‎ ‎ An IT university will be built at Hope City Dubbed Hope City, it will have Africa's tallest building, at a height of 270m, an investor says.‎ It will be built on empty land and will employ about 50,000 people and house 25,000 people, the investor adds.‎ In January, Kenya unveiled plans to build an "Africa's Silicon Savannah" within 20 years at a cost of $14.5bn.‎ Kenya's Konza Technology City, about 60km from the capital, Nairobi, is supposed to create more than 200,000 jobs by 2030.‎ Mr Mahama said the private sector would spearhead（带头，做先锋） the building of Hope City. ‎ ‎"Government has led growth since independence with all the major investments... The time has come for the private sector to take over," he said at the project's launch.‎ ‎"We can see that already in several sectors, including ICT [information, communications and technology] and telecom." ‎ The head of local technology giant RLG Communications, Roland Agambire, told the BBC that his company was investing in Hope City with the aim of making Ghana globally competitive.‎ ‎"What we are trying to do here is to develop the apps [applications] from scratch," he said. ‎ ‎"This will enable us to have the biggest assembling plant in the world to assemble various products - over one million within a day," he said. ‎ The IT hub would be made up of six towers, including a 75-storey, 270m-high tower, "the highest in Africa", RLG Communications says on its website. ‎ ‎"Hope City will provide work for 50,000 people and will host 25,000 inhabitants," it adds. ‎ It would include an IT university, a residential area, a hospital, as well as social and sporting amenities, the BBC's Sammy Darko reports from Accra.‎