Category: AfCFTA

Estimates by the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) indicate that AfCFTA has the potential to boost intra-African trade by eliminating import duties, and…

Now a new player is emerging with the potential to defragment Africa and boost the productivity of its economies: the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)…

Next week, the AfCFTA countries are taking the first big step with an Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) in which 41 countries have already registered to participate. The…

Representatives from 14 countries in East Africa have agreed to promote regional integration through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

AfCFTA: Big economies afraid of ‘cheating’, says ECA’s David Luke, The CFTA is expected to promote value addition and consequently boost trade among…

The competition seeks to create awareness among students on AfCFTA and related comparative advantages of Rwanda, according to the Economic Policy…

If ratified, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area would the continent the largest free-trade block in terms of participating countries since the formation of the…

Matsaert also shared his broad view on political will, how gender is a central issue, and the need to harness convincing arguments about how the AfCFTA should…

Closing the three-day 22nd meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE), which focused on the implementation of the AfCFTA, the minister had…

Trucks at Rusumo border post. Of the 49 countries on the continent that have signed the AfCFTA deal, only 12 have so far ratified it. Nadege Imbabazi.

With the coming of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which is aimed at creating an effective single market through the facilitation of the free movement…

How exactly do you hope to help reach a regional consensus on how to move forward with implementing the AfCFTA? It’s important that policymakers from the…

Signed in Kigali in March, the AfCFTA is a trade agreement initially endorsed by 44 AU member states, with the goal of creating a single market across the…

Dangote said:I was in another forum recently and when the Ghanaian president was asked why the AfCFTA has not been signed by Nigeria and he pointed at me…

Signed on March 21 in Kigali, the AfCFTA is a trade agreement initially endorsed by 44 AU member states. Its goal is to create a single market across the continent.

AfCFTA commits countries to remove tariffs on 90 per cent of goods, progressively liberalise trade in services, and address a host of other non-tariff barriers, like…

MPs follow proceedings during a session of the Fifth Pan-African Parliament at Kigali Convention Centre on Monday. Nadege Imbabazi. Twitter; Facebook…

Signed in Kigali on March 21 this year, the AfCFTA is a trade agreement initially endorsed by 44 AU member states, with the goal of creating a single market…

Africa’sleading private sector institutions and corporates have established a Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) to serve as…

It is against this background that we are gathered here today on the subject of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) which was…

Similarly, Nigeria’s economy with even a poorer socio-economic infrastructure cannot survive with AfCFTA that will stranglehold it to South Africa and other trans-…

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), process seems to be stalling. There is concern that some critical timelines will not be met. Funds for the long…

Countries can use the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) tool to create opportunities for African businesses and through them drive the continent’s…

The AfCFTA will not succeed unless there is a robust dialogue at national level complemented by regional and continental dialogue sessions, he further added.

NAMIBIA’s small and medium enterprises sector will gain easier access to bigger foreign markets for goods and services through the African continental free…

AfCFTA is an attempt to boost intra-African trade, which at present is estimated at just 10 per cent. It aspires to operate a single market for goods and services, just…

Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Tuesday, said refusal of the two largest economies in Africa to sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement É

As the debate on whether or not Nigeria should sign-on to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) rages on, a former Director General of Nigerian…

This article critically questions whether the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement that was signed by 44 out of 55 African countries in Kigali,…

While the AfCFTA may be a huge milestone in boosting the low level of intra-Africa trade and intra-African investments, its success is undermined by infrastructure…

This particular edition will prepare analytical work to inform the AfCFTA Phase II negotiations. The ARIA 9 report will address the three topics of the AfCFTA Phase…

It advises that the AfCFTA arrangement needs to go beyond a 100 per cent tariff reduction in all goods, as non-tariff barriers are also major constraints on intra-…

A total of 44 out of 55 African Union (AU) countries signed the agreement establishing the AfCFTA on 21 March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda. South Africa, which did not…

At the ongoing Afreximbank Annual meetings in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital territory, George Elombi, Executive Vice President of Governance, Legal and…

The AfCFTA identifies seven priority action clusters for its implementation. They are trade policy, trade facilitation, productive capacity, trade-related infrastructure,…

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is the largest such free trade area when one considers the number of countries involved. The African continent…

Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode Thursday declared support for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and urged Nigeria to sign the…

FOSSCCIMA disclosed that the AfCFTA would provide an expanded market access for Nigeria’s exports of goods and services, covering a market of 1.2 billion…

Hace poco, varios jefes de estado y de gobierno africanos fimaron la creacifn de lo que sere la zona de libre comercio mes grande del mundo: el crea de Libre…

While acknowledging concerns about the loss in tariff revenue from the AfCFTA implementation, the regional committee of experts noted that those would be offset…

The Prime Minister, who stated that his government is ready to ratify the AfCFTA deal and deposit its instruments to the African Union, said: ‘Let us finance our own…

The AfCFTA pact will come into effect 30 days after ratification by the parliaments of at least 22 countries (half of the original signatories). Each country has 120…

Conversations about a single African currency, capacity building for AfCFTAÉ

“The height of the North-East geopolitical zone sensitization and consultation on AfCFTA was the positive relationship established by stakeholders between trade,…

On 22 March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda, Heads of State of forty-four African countries, gathered to sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)…

The success of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will significantly rest on the ability of Africa’s private sector to produce goods for the…

Although 44 countries signed the AFCFTA agreement, 11 countries including Namibia did not yet sign the agreement. However, Namibia and South Africa have…

A month after 44 African states signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, members of the Lower House have given the green light to…

President Paul Kagame has said that even with the recent signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), African leaders must work to improve the…

Zimbabwean entrepreneur, Strive Masiyiwa, has commented on the recently signed African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which the Zimbabwe…

Talkmore Chidede, Correspondent. The African Continental Free Trade Area AfCFTA is part of the broader economic integration and development agenda…

Again, 27 countries also signed these separate AU Protocol on Free Movement of People, which complements the AfCFTA by providing for visa-free travel, the…

Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo submitting instruments of ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area to African Union’s…

ZIMBABWE is set to benefit immensely from the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) signed recently by President Emmerson…

AKURAT.CO, AfCFTA juga penting bagi ekonomi lain di luar Afrika. Sebuah pasar tunggal sekitar 1,2 miliar orang serta sekitar USD3 triliun dalam GDP…

L’Africa diventer, presto, l’area di libero scambio commerciale pif grande del mondo, dopo l’Organizzazione mondiale del commercio (Omc). Nella giornata di…

The AfCFTA was signed by 44 countries of Africa to boost trade among African nations through the creation of a single market. Nigeria, the largest economy in…

President Kagame is the current Chairperson of the African Union. Three hours later, 44 countries had signed the AfCFTA, 43 signed the Kigali declaration and 27…

It was a long journey right from the Abuja Treaty in 1991, which set foot for the current AfCFTA. At exactly 12 noon Kigali time, the President of Niger moved…

This afternoon, 50 African countries signed the historic Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), an agreement that will create a single African market. But…

The AfCFTA is aimed at creating a single continental market for goods and services with free movement of businesses and investments. This, according to the AU,…

AfCFTA seeks to make Africa the largest free trade area, improve its economies and strengthen its position in global trade. Ukaoha said President Muhammadu…

As the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area draws closer, Foreign Affairs Ministers from across the continent are working to address three…

This comes after Namibia agreed to sign the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement in July 2018, after signing the declaration of intent in March…

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru BARELY after three days the Federal Executive Council, FEC, gave President Muhammadu Buhari the approval to join other African…

Rwanda will soon complete the ratification process of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement and will in the coming few days submit…

Now we must seize the momentum at hand to focus on how to operationalise the AfCFTA agreement, in a manner that realises its potential to the benefit of the…