Analysts and businesspeople in the six-member Central African Economic and Monetary Community say that although the African Continental Free Trade Area launched in Niger last Sunday at an African Union summit brings hope for pan African trade, they are not sure CEMAC will be fully implemented anytime soon.
CEMAC's similar free-trade area has been plagued by corruption, national egos and a limitation of movement that have stunted the initiative.
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