The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) marks its fifth anniversary amid growing concerns about its implementation pace and effectiveness. Despite ambitious goals to create a unified market of 1.3 billion people and generate $450 billion in additional revenue by 2035, the agreement faces substantial obstacles in translating vision into reality. Infrastructure deficiencies pose a […]
Morocco has turned the tide in the trade balance with France over the past decade with a booming automobile industry, French ambassador Hélène Le Gal has told online media le360.ma. “We have gone from a French trade surplus to a Moroccan trade surplus, because Morocco exports much more to France than it imports. Morocco exports […]
Armed factions in Somalia’s northern semi-autonomous state of Puntland have agreed to a ceasefire after dozens of people had been killed after the state’s parliament voted to change the region’s voting system. At least 26 people were killed and 30 injured on Tuesday (20 June) in clashes outside parliament in Garowe, the Puntland capital, between […]
