ISDS Case Map
AfCFTA
African Continental Free Trade Area
Ghana plans pilot digital trade corridor supporting AfCFTA cross-border transactions.
Rwanda and Zambia join interoperability tests for payments, IDs, and invoicing.
Initiative targets costly delays hindering Africa’s growing digital trade market.
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat has taken a significant step toward strengthening global partnerships following a high-level engagement in Ottawa with senior officials of Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
The Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat, held high-level bilateral talks with Türkiye’s Minister of Trade. The meeting underscored a shared commitment to expanding trade, investment, and industrial cooperation within the evolving framework of the AfCFTA.
The EU and the AfCFTA Secretariat signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 20 April 2026, strengthening their partnership to accelerate the African Continental Free Trade Area which is the largest free trade area in the world.
Rwanda’s visa-free access for Africans deepens a continent-wide shift toward open borders, boosting tourism, trade and AfCFTA-linked mobility from West to East Africa.
Tunisia is pushing forward a strategic land trade corridor connecting North Africa to the Sahel, aiming to reposition itself as a gateway between the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa will need more than 700 data centres to support the digital trade architecture envisioned under the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene said.
ODI Global, in partnership with government's 24-Hour Economy Authority, the AfCFTA Secretariat, has announced the development of a network and protocol called Neofingo at a forum held simultaneously in London and Accra.
The AfCFTA Secretariat, Quest Ghana Limited, and the Seychelles government signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the archipelago as a digital trade hub. The initiative focuses on integrating Seychellois businesses into Africa’s digital value chains.
The gazetting of tariff offers represents a critical transition point in AfCFTA implementation. While ratification of the Agreement establishes a country’s legal commitment to the continental free trade area, it is the gazetting of tariff schedules that translates that commitment into actionable market access.
