缅北禁地

UNGA2024
Mabingue Ngom
Trade

AfCFTA: Reaping the benefits of the world’s most youth and women-friendly trade agreement

Priority must be given to investments in women and youth in all facets of the AfCFTA implementation arrangements
Linda Chepkwony
Free Trade Area

AfCFTA: A young trader’s continental dreams coming true

Thirty-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur Linda Chepkwony wants to mobilise young Africans to help industrialize the continent through free trade pact
People and trucks cross at the Ghana-C?te d'Ivoire border at Elubo.
Trade

Momentum builds for free movement under AfCFTA

Intra-African trade was largely stifled by stringent entry rules making it strenuous for citizens to move from one country to another
Stephen Karingi, Director of Regional Integration and Trade at UNECA.
Trade

AfCFTA is key in cushioning African LDCs from external shocks

Current trade patterns have exposed Africa’s poorest to commodity price volatilities and global shocks due to current trading patterns
Stephen Karingi, Director of Regional Integration and Trade at UNECA.
Trade

Private sector urged to “own and drive” Africa’s continental free trade

Africa’s private sector accounts for 80 per cent of total production, two-thirds of investment, three-quarters of credit, and employs 90 per cent of the working-age population
Presently, intra Africa trade stands low at just 14.4% of total African exports.
Trade

Africa’s free trade on track, more efforts needed

Buoyant year ahead as AfCFTA marks 2nd Anniversary
Zambia and DRC sign cooperation agreement to manufacture electric batteries
Trade

Trade ties: Zambia and DRC sign cooperation Agreement to manufacture electric batteries, create jobs

Both countries are home to 80 percent of minerals required for production of electric car batteries.
Women in field in Senegal.
Free Trade Area

New project to help operationalize AFCFTA in eight countries

It will support the implementation of more than 30 activities in Burkina Faso, C?te d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo, and Tunisia
Economic Development

AfCFTA: Africa’s transport sector to benefit from free trade

Business in Trade Road, rail, air, and maritime services to increase by 50%
Happy owner processing order from a customer
Free Trade Area

Key pillars mostly?in place to?speed up?Africa's?free trade in 2022

One year in, African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiators are making progress on remaining crucial elements, especially on rules of origin.
Economic Development

AfCFTA: Traders to have opportunities to scale up and expand their markets in 2022

Immediate priorities include finalising negotiations on rules of origin, providing a finance facility for SMEs and launching the African Trade Gateway digital platform.
Wamkele Mene, Secretary General, African Continental Free Trade Area  Secretariat (AfCFTA)
Economic Development

One year of free trading in Africa calls for celebration despite teething problems

Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General AfCFTA Secretariat, says significant progress expected in 2022.
Economic Development

Africa’s Free Trade Area to boost the creative industry, generate jobs for the youth

These include visual and performing arts, crafts, cultural festivals, photography, music, dance, film, fashion, video games, digital animation, publishing, architecture, and more.
Trade

Connecting Africans with Africans: How effective communication can help boost intra-African Trade

We need more channels of communication to connect African businesses and organisations
A man with chicken eggs in his hands.
Economic Development

FAO: Agriculture will make or break free African trade

Changing agricultural food systems could unlock Africa's potential
Trucks loaded with goods had been waiting for weeks to cross the C?te d’Ivoire-Ghana borders
Trade

Africans urged to trade more with each other

A 2021 study by the 缅北禁地Economic Commission for Africa on regional integration says EU takes biggest share of African trade.
An image of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Trade

What Africa expects of the new WTO Chief Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

As Dr. Okonjo-Iweala takes office Africa seeks equitable COVID-19 vaccine access, support for free trade area, better market access and breaking of longstanding deadlocks.
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