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Video: AfCFTA Business Forum Plenary 3 Technology, Innovation and Intra-Africa Trade
AfroChampions Initiative will work side by side with the African Union to promote the African Continental Free Trade Area; AfroChampions Initiative commits USD 1 million on awareness-raising actions
March 20, 2018
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Kigali, March 20th, 2018 - On the occasion of the AfCFTA Business Forum, the African Union and the AfroChampions Initiative have just released their roadmap for the promotion of the African Continental Free Trade Area. The AfroChampions Initiative thus becomes an official platform of exchange between the African private sector and the leaders of the African Union, and in particular its department in charge of Trade and Industry.
African Union condemns the violence ahead of second round presidential election in Sierra Leone
March 20, 2018
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Addis Ababa, 20 March 2018: The Head of the African Union Election Observation Mission to Sierra Leone, H.E. Kgalema Motlanthe recalls the interim statement that AUEOM issued immediately after the General Election of 7 March 2018. In that statement the AUEOM congratulated all political stakeholders and the people of Sierra Leone for the peaceful, transparent and credible manner in which the elections were held. In the same statement, AUEOM implored Sierra Leone stakeholders to uphold peace and avoid violence as the country gears itself up for the run-off presidential election.
Video: AfCFTA Business Forum Plenary 2 - Jobs, Youth & Women: What AfCFTA means for Africa’s citizens
Keynote Address by President Paul Kagame, Chairperson of the African Union, at AfCFTA Business Forum
A warm welcome to Kigali, and thank you all for being here today.
I thank Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat for convening this event, and I also commend the Commissioner for Trade and Industry, Albert Muchanga, and the entire staff of the African Union Commission for their hard work and dedication.
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March 20, 2018
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Video: AfCFTA Business Forum Plenary I - Leveraging the Power of Business to Drive Africa’s Integration
Note to Editors: Questions and Answers on the African Continental Free Trade Area
Note to Editors: African Union will enhance Free Movement and Single Air Transport Market during the Extraordinary Summit on the AfCFTA in Kigali, Rwanda
March 19, 2018
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The Extraordinary Summit on the African Continental Free TRADE AfCFTA held from 17 – 21 March 2018 in Kigali , Rwanda, will serve as a platform for the African Union to sign into existence another flagship project that will boost intra-Africa trade: The Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community relating to Free Movement of Persons, Rights of Residence and Right of Establishment.
Note to Editors: The African Continental Free Trade Area Protocol is a Means towards Building the “Africa We Want”
March 19, 2018
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Kigali Rwanda, 19th March 2018: The establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area will result in a unified market of over 1,2 billion people with a combined gross product of over US$3 trillion, said H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, in his address during the 18th Executive Council on African Continental Free Trade Area. He added that it would result in an increase in intra-African trade of 52 per cent by 2022 and culminate in substantial improvements of the lives of Africans.
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