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AfCFTA: Africa readying for free trade come January 2021

Exciting times ahead for traders despite anticipated teething problems and COVID-19
Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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Africa’s free trade area: the journey begins

— Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Textile workers at a factory in Kampala, Uganda.  Photo: Alamy Stock Photo / Jonathan Rosenthal
and Robert Mgendi  and 
Free Trade Area

Trading while caring for people and planet

Compliance standards can protect ecosystems
Textile workers at a factory in Kampala, Uganda.  Photo: Alamy Stock Photo / Jonathan Rosenthal
and Robert Mgendi  and 
Free Trade Area

Trading while caring for people and planet

Compliance standards can protect ecosystems
Tomato trader, Margaret Lartey, in a market in Ghana. Photo: Efam Awo Dovi
Free Trade Area

Infrastructure key to intra-African trade

West African traders demand investments in roads, rails and telecom
Customers shopping for groceries in a supermarket in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: Panos / N. Rixon
Free Trade Area

One-stop border post will boost trading

Southern African trader is cautiously optimistic about a free trade area
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.
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Africa set for a massive free trade area

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