Gihofi holds the headquarters of Moso Sugar Company (SOSUMO), created in 1988.

[1] The company built a large neighborhood to house its employees, separated into blocks for different categories from directors down to middle managers, technicians and ordinary employees.

[2] Private neighborhoods were also built in what developed into an urban center with a regional hospital and an airfield, banks and other institutions.

[1] For uneducated youth, a job with SOSUMO gives hope for the future, although only some are employed, and then only for seasonal work.

Services include internal medicine, ultrasound and maternity, surgery, pediatrics, neonatology, laboratory and radiography.