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AfCFTA
African Continental Free Trade Area
Nigeria has removed the remaining legal and policy obstacles to trading under the preferential terms of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) after the Federal Government gazetted key instruments required to activate the agreement, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment.
The AfCFTA Secretariat concluded two days of Joint Agriculture and Trade Stakeholders Consultations in Addis Ababa, with participants validating a comprehensive Agri-Food Trade Action Plan designed to transform Africa’s agricultural sector into a driver of continental integration.
The country has taken a key step towards aligning its investment framework with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) after convening a stakeholder engagement and policy dialogue on investment.
In Cairo, Afreximbank laid the first stone of its African Trade Centre, a strategic project aimed at strengthening intra-African trade and supporting the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Since its public debut in January 2022, PAPSS has matured rapidly, now connecting 19 countries, 160 commercial banks, and 15 national switches, allowing cross-border transactions to clear in local currencies within a maximum of 120 seconds.
Google and theAfCFTA Secretariat have launched the AfCFTA Digital Inclusion & Entrepreneurship Programme that will train thousands of SMEs across Nigeria and the African continent on critical AI and digital skills to expand their businesses and trade continent-wide.
Africa has the potential to become a strategic partner for South Korea in the car manufacturing and tech industries, with its abundant critical mineral resources, and push for industrialization and digitalization of the continent, the head of the region's free trade bloc said Tuesday.
Afreximbank and the AfCFTA Secretariat have taken a major step towards realising Africa’s digital trade potential with the launch of the Africa Trade Gateway’s national adoption campaign in Kigali — a move set to accelerate intra-African commerce and integration.
Returned from his Southeast Asian trip, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that amid global economic uncertainty, South Africa must diversify its trade and investment relations.
Ghana is making “tangible progress” on initiatives to attract German private sector investments, particularly within the framework of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), headquartered in Accra.
