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Second Edition of AfCFTA News Magazine
- On the Menu:
- The remarkable experience of Jacqueline Tientcheu, the first Cameroonian to have a ZLECAF certificate of origin.
- The role of ambassadors in the AfCFTA.
- The ZLECAF 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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Strategic information
Latest News and Opportunities
Paul Biya : Cameroon is proud to feature among the seven pioneer countries on the continent that are experimenting the AfCFTA
The entire speech of Cameroonian President Paul Biya of January 06, 2023, in response to the wishes of the diplomatic corps. The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, First and foremost, I would like to thank you for your kind words addressed to me and to my country. I am also pleased to see you again,...
Joe Biden: “The United States is launching a new strategic partnership with the African Union”
Remarks by President Biden at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience. Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, D.C. DECEMBER 15, 2022. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much for what has been, from our perspective, a very...
Kamala D. Harris: “We will launch The African Women’s Trade and Investment Initiative”
Remarks by Vice President Harris at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit African and Diaspora Young Leaders Forum this DECEMBER 13, 2022 at the National Museum of African American History and CultureWashington, D.C. 1:31 P.M. EST. THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Please have a seat....
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AfCFTA Secretariat Pledge to Promote Trade Between Africa and the United States
[AfCFTA News] – The AfCFTA Secretariat has announced yesterday (December 13, 2022) the signing of an MOU with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's U.S.-Africa Business Center to promote trade and create better business environments in Africa and the United States. According to the AfCFTA...
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Be the first AfCFTA’s Director for Customs Administration [Apply now!]
[AfCFTA News] – The African Union is looking for a Director for Customs Administration of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Read the announcement: Date: Nov 18, 2022 Location: Ghana, Ghana Organization: African Union AU Values ...
SUCCESS STORIES
AfCFTA: The amazing experience of Jacqueline Tientcheu [Digital Business Africa]
[Digital Business Africa] – In addition to the news on ICT, Telecoms, and Digital in Africa, your magazine Digital Business Africa has decided to devote an edition to the AfCFTA, the African Continental Free Trade Area. On the menu of this first edition AfCFTA: The...
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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.
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,
Briggette Harrington: “Packaging remains a barrier for local products”
Recently, Rwanda began trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area in a pilot phase that aims to test the environmental, legal and trade policy foundations of intra-African trade. The zone includes seven other African countries: Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana,...
The vision
The overall objectives of AfCFTA
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The Member States of the African Union, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the aspirations set out in Agenda 2063 aimed at creating a continental market with the free movement of people, capital, goods and services, which are essential for strengthening economic integration, promoting agricultural development, food security, industrialisation, and structural economic transformation (…) commit to creating an African Continental Free Trade Area called “AfCFTA”.
In its general objectives, the AfCFTA aims to:
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.
People in Africa
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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
President of Rwanda
Wamkele Mene
SG of the AfCFTA Secretariat
Pr Benedict Oramah
President of AfreximBank
