Deeper AfCFTA integration could raise average African GDP by about 0.7%, with stronger trade rules helping unlock a continental market of over 1.4 billion people. Governments, development partners and ...

Otunba Francis Meshioye, has said Nigeria’s participation in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will only be ...

Going forward, the following considerations must be taken into account… The first is to ensure that the provisions of the agreement are implemented in an effective and business-friendly manner… ...

Secretariat says it has partnered with the All Africa Intellectual Property Summit to strengthen the use of intellectual ...

Cameroon has launched a new cross-border trade project backed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and implemented by the International ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is maintaining reform momentum despite falling aid, record debt pressures and shrinking fiscal space, with stronger economic management but persistent governance weaknesses. Future ...

My response was that I am sceptical about the AfCFTA, and the cut-and-paste EU-style regional integration that the continent has been pursuing since the AU treaty came into force in 2002. I do not ...

Although Africa is home to 17.9% of the world's population, it has only 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP) and 2.5% of its exports, which consist mainly of primary goods. Consequently, the ...

Experts have praised the AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol as a game changer that has created a legal framework and basis to drive and shape the future of digital trading to accelerate Intra-Africa ...

Africa is largely fragmented ethnically and is home to some of the world’s most protracted armed insurgencies, conflicts, and political violence, perhaps explaining why intra-African trade accounts ...

SV-NED accelerate startups by connecting them directly to venture capitalists, angel investors and grant funding to launch their businesses. AfCFTA is the single largest untapped continental market ...