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Slow takeoff for Africa’s AfCFTA: Tanzania joining FTA in July, Nigeria not yet ready

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) market has been a long time coming, but several African nations and major companies have finally started shipping goods and trading a trickle of goods under the AfCFTA agreement signed in 2018. Tanzania is one of the African countries that have decided to take part in a new […]

Morocco asks South Africa to join efforts for Africa’s best interests

Morocco has renewed its call on South Africa to cooperate together in order to serve the continent’s best interests. The two countries have the most diversified economies in the continent and an advanced infrastructure that enable them to extend their clout beyond their borders. They are also the two largest African investors in the continent. […]

Traffic in Moroccan ports up 5.1% in 2020

Despite challenges posed by the pandemic to international trade, Moroccan ports handled 92.5 million tons in 2020, that is a 5.1% rise compared to a year earlier, the national ports agency said. Imports rose 4.4% to 56.1 million tons due notably to a rise in cereal purchases by 33.4%, sugar (+8.9%), animal feed (+3.4%), coal […]