The AfCFTA Secretariat and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), on 10 March 2023 in Kigali, signed the Host Country Agreement for the AfCFTA Adjustment Fund with the Republic of Rwanda. The US$10 billion Fund, headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, is a critical instrument in the realisation of the African Continental Free Trade...

An the occasion of the 17th Extraordinary Session of the African Union Conference on Industrialization, Moussa Faki Mahamat pleaded for "a Renewed commitment to Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialisation and Economic Diversification”. By Moussa Faki Mahamat Three years after the inaugural meeting of the Annual Coordination Meeting between the AU and...

he Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved an $11.02 million support package to the Permanent Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to help it enhance effective implementation. The AfCFTA Secretariat opened its doors in Accra on 17 August 2020, with initial support of $5 million to...

Gathered on June 22 by the business firm AB & David Africa, several African public and private decision-makers recalled the key role played by continental service providers in supporting businesses - An issue that is more relevant than ever at a time when the AfCTA is being deployed. By Dounia...

The AU Chairperson speaks : interview with Professor Daniel Mukoko Samba in charge of AfCFTA issues in DR Congo. President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi pledged at the 34th African Union Summit that one of his priorities as current AU Chairperson would be to accelerate the operationalization of the AfCFTA. According to which...

As Phase II negotiations of the African Continental Free Trade Area (“AfCFTA”) have been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a draft legal text of the AfCFTA Investment Protocol (“Protocol”) has not been submitted to the January 2021 Session of the Assembly, as originally expected.  There are reasons to believe that...

Dr. Francis Mangeni, member of the AfCFTA Secretariat and Director of Trade, Customs and Monetary Affairs for the Eastern and Southern African markets, provides an update on the AfCFTA implementation process. That process has started, according to him...  The AfCFTA officially came into force on January 1. The challenge now...

The AfCFTA is a historic moment for Africa - and in fact, there are different ways of telling the ‘AFCFTA story’... First, there is the story of progress. A theoretical story, in fact, informed by mathematical and economic models, calculations, and principles developed in other contexts. And we hear that...

« La Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine (ZLECAF) représente toujours cet accord avec un grand potentiel de favoriser l’intégration économique régionale et la croissance économique, et faire passer l’Afrique au niveau supérieur, même en pleine crise de coronavirus paralysante », estiment les panélistes d’un webinaire sur le mécanisme de relance...