African businesses are increasingly looking to expand across the continent, but high financing costs, limited access to trade finance and gaps in the implementation of the African Continental Free ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is maintaining reform momentum despite falling aid, record debt pressures and shrinking fiscal space, with stronger economic management but persistent governance weaknesses. Future ...

Otunba Francis Meshioye, has said Nigeria’s participation in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will only be ...

Two recent deals, one involving Afreximbank, the other involving financial service provider Absa Group, indicate the growing reach of digital trade and payments in Africa. African Export-Import Bank ...

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Afreximbank and the East African Business Council (EABC) have signed the Africa Trade Gateway (ATG) Agency Agreement, ...

Deeper AfCFTA integration could raise average African GDP by about 0.7%, with stronger trade rules helping unlock a continental market of over 1.4 billion people. Governments, development partners and ...

Secretariat says it has partnered with the All Africa Intellectual Property Summit to strengthen the use of intellectual ...

Going forward, the following considerations must be taken into account… The first is to ensure that the provisions of the agreement are implemented in an effective and business-friendly manner… ...

Although Africa is home to 17.9% of the world's population, it has only 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP) and 2.5% of its exports, which consist mainly of primary goods. Consequently, the ...