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Wamkele Mene, Secretary General, African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat (AfCFTA)

Digital trade is the next big thing in Africa

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Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Africa’s free trade area: the journey begins

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Skilling up

Youth and trade: World Export Development Forum set for 11-12 Sept in Zambia

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Tomato trader, Margaret Lartey, in a market in Ghana. Photo: Efam Awo Dovi

Infrastructure key to intra-African trade

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West African traders demand investments in roads, rails and telecom

African Union chairperson and president of Rwanda Paul Kagame, president of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou and African Union Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat at the launch of AfCFTA in Kigali in March 2018.

Africa set for a massive free trade area

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Experts say the African Continental Free Trade Agreement is a game changer

Textile workers at a factory in Kampala, Uganda. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo / Jonathan Rosenthal

Trading while caring for people and planet

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Compliance standards can protect ecosystems

Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi

Africa has phenomenal potential for intra-continental trade

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— Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi

Customers shopping for groceries in a supermarket in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: Panos / N. Rixon

One-stop border post will boost trading

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Southern African trader is cautiously optimistic about a free trade area