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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is an opportunity for Africa. Learn about opportunities, stories of Africa’s trade successes, and Africa’s march toward a truly free trade zone.

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Second edition of AfCFTA News Magazine

  • On the Menu:
  • The amazing experience of Jacqueline Tientcheu, the first Cameroonian to obtain an AfCFTA certificate of origin.
  • The role of ambassadors in AfCFTA.
  • AfCFTA events not to be missed.

Do not miss to download our special magazine on the chances of African countries in the AfCFTA and in particular a major instrument, a guide to better exchange with other African countries.

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Opportunities

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) offers Africa’s businesses, institutions, and organizations countless opportunities for development. Find here some possibilities.

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News

Find out how the AfCFTA is being implemented by institutions, businesses and the private sector.

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Success Stories

They have successfully implemented processes to market and sell their products and services outside their home territories. With significant success. Sometimes thanks to the facilities of the AfCFTA. Read their story…

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Strategic information

Latest News and Opportunities

SUCCESS STORIES

Jacqueline Tientcheu: “The Secretary General of AfCFTA would like to help youth and women”
Jacqueline Tientcheu: “The Secretary General of AfCFTA would like to help youth and women”

11 Dec 2022

Jacqueline Tientcheu: “The Secretary General of AfCFTA would like to help youth and women”

Jacqueline Tientcheu participated in the presentation of a glossary of 100 key terms during the Africa Industrialization Week in Niamey from November 20 to 25. Jacqueline Tientcheu, the first Cameroonian entrepreneur to export her products under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), will no longer have to worry about understanding the terms and laws associated with this tool.

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Paul Obambi and Touré née Maman Koné plan to strengthen economic ties between Congo and Côte d’Ivoire
Paul Obambi and Touré née Maman Koné plan to strengthen economic ties between Congo and Côte d’Ivoire

11 Dec 2022

Paul Obambi and Touré née Maman Koné plan to strengthen economic ties between Congo and Côte d’Ivoire

Also read: Mardi 5 Juillet 2022 - 18:53 The Chamber of Commerce of Brazzaville and that of Abidjan will begin to collaborate under a memorandum of understanding. The rapprochement between Congolese and Ivorian businessmen was the focus of a meeting on 5 July between the President of the Brazzaville Chamber of Commerce,

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The vision

The overall objectives of AfCFTA

  1. The Member States of the African Union, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the aspirations set out in Agenda 2063 to create a continental market with free movement of people, capital, goods and services, which are essential for strengthening economic integration, promoting agricultural development, food security, industrialization and economic structural transformation (…) commit themselves to the establishment of an African Continental Free Trade Area to be known as the AfCFTA.

    In its general objectives, the AfCFTA aims to:

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Create a single market

Create a single market for goods and services facilitated by the movement of people in order to deepen the economic integration of the African continent and in line with the pan-African vision of an “integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa” as set out in Agenda 2063;

A liberalized market

Create a liberalized market for goods and services through successive rounds of negotiations ;

A customs union

Lay the groundwork for the creation of a continental customs union at a later stage;

Accelerating integration

Resolve the challenges of membership in a multitude of overlapping organizations and accelerate regional and continental integration processes.

Industrial development

Promote industrial development through diversification and development of regional value chains, agricultural development and food security; and

Strengthen competitiveness

Strengthen the competitiveness of the economies of the State’s Parties at the continental and global levels;

Realize the development

Promote and achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development, gender equality and structural transformation of States Parties;

Movement of persons and capital

Contribute to the movement of capital and natural persons and facilitate investments by building on initiatives and developments in State Parties and RECs;

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AfCFTA News, the strategic information on intra-African trade

AfCFTA News (Magazine) is committed to providing African decision-makers, start-ups and SMEs with strategic information that will enable them to more easily engage in trade relations with other countries in Africa. And above all, tell the success stories of African entrepreneurs who succeed in doing business in Africa outside their home country.

This week's AfCFTA implementation figures include

People in Africa

Countries

Listed products including 80% of customs duties removed

In millions, the number of people who will escape extreme poverty in 2035.

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Our AfCFTA Champions of the Week

Paul KAGAME

Paul KAGAME

President of Rwanda

Wamkele Mene

Wamkele Mene

SG of the AfCFTA Secretariat

Pr Benedict Oramah

Pr Benedict Oramah

President of AfreximBank