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Africa: 27 Countries Sign Pact for Free Movement of People
Nation, 21 March 2018
Kenya is among 27 countries that have just signed a protocol allowing for free movement of people and the right to live and own land anywhere in Africa. Read more »
The countries have signed the protocol to the treaty establishing the African economic community dubbed African Continental Free Trade Area at an extraordinary AU Summit in Kigali. Burundi, Nigeria, Guinea Bissau and Eritrea are among 17 countries that did not sign the protocol.
Forty-four countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Area, 43 inked the Kigali Declaration, while 27 countries adopted the protocol on free movement of persons.
Representatives of 44 countries out of 55 member countries of the African Union have signed an agreement on the African Continental Free Trade Area at an extraordinary AU Summit in ... Read more »
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