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Africa: Finally, Buhari Ready to Sign Africa Free Trade Agreement
Guardian, 12 July 2018
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he expressed readiness to sign the Africa… Read more »
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Africa: Namibia Finally Signs Africa Free Trade Deal
New Era, 5 July 2018
Namibia has finally signed the trillion-dollar African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), which requires members to remove tariffs from 90 percent of goods to allow free… Read more »
African Countries Making Progress in Free Trade Deal
More countries are joining in the continental deal expected to remove taxes from up to 90% of the 200 items traded on the continent, making them cheaper for consumers. South Africa, Sierra Leone, Namibia, Lesotho, and Burundi are among the countries that signed the deal during a recent AU meeting in Mauritania bringing the number of countries that have inked the deal to 49.
The cabinet is expected to review and make a decision on the Africa free trade agreement, signed on Sunday by President Hage Geingob.
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Africa: More Countries Sign the African Free Trade Area Agreement
East African, 3 July 2018
Forty-nine of the 55 member states of the African Union have signed the continental free trade are agreement. Read more »
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Africa: Liberia's Signature to Africa's Free Trade Treaty Sparks Debates
FrontPageAfrica, 1 April 2018
To ease trade on the continent, African leaders have signed a free trade pact thus creating one of the biggest trade blocs globally. Read more »
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Africa: Moody's Lists Barriers to Africa's Free-Trade Deal
East African, 24 March 2018
As Africa celebrates the achievement of yet another major milestone with the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) this past week, the continent will need to… Read more »
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Africa: African Leaders Sign Continental Free-Trade Agreement
Shabelle, 22 March 2018
African leaders have signed an agreement to set up a massive free-trade area to improve regional integration and boost economic growth across the continent. Read more »
InFocus
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President Hage Geingob has confirmed that Namibia will soon sign up to the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA), which will give the country easier access to the ... Read more »
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration will not be in a hurry to enter into any agreement that would make the country a dumping ground and jeopardise the security ... Read more »
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Theoretically such regional free trade agreements benefit all member states. And they could. But for the bigger states, one senses that the rationale for the AfCFTA and other ... Read more »
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The single continental market will offer the opportunity to accelerate the manufacture and intra-African trade of value-added products, moving from commodity based economies and ... Read more »
