Africa is hoping to create a free trade area stretching across the continent The European Union and its free trade agreement took decades to establish. Africa is now hoping it can achieve the same ...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi sas China ‘will help Africa to develop and revitalise itself and move towards modernisation’.

Africa's share of world trade has fallen from about 4 percent in 1980 to less than 2 percent today. A country's export performance is influenced by its natural endowments, by exogenous factors, and by ...

It is hoped the deal will boost low levels of manufacturing in Africa The leaders of 44 African countries have signed a deal to create one of the world's largest free trade blocs. The agreement ...

The value of intra-Africa trade declined to $190.9 billion in 2023, demonstrating persistent challenges that African economies continue to face in trading with one another under the continental Common ...