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By eliminating barriers to trade in Africa, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will lift 30 million people from extreme poverty and another 68 million people from moderate poverty. To boost intra-African trade, the continent has embarked on the gradual elimination of tariffs on 90 percent of goods, and the reduction of barriers to trade in services aimed at increasing Africa’s income by $450 billion by 2035.

On 10 February 2023, the African Union Commission’s Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (DARBE), and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), co-convened the Horn of Africa Ministerial Roundtable on food security in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

African Union Commission organized a parallel session on Strengthening labor market and migration information systems with real-time data and new methodologies during the 3^rd International Forum for Migration Statistics held at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC).