Will the Cape to Cairo free-trade zone work?

Mkenya David Kinja, akishirikiana na waendeshaji baiskeli wengine watatu anashiriki, jaribio la kuvunja rekodi ya uendeshaji baiskeli duniani.

Africa's largest free-trade zone is to be created, covering 26 countries and including more than 600 million people when a deal is signed in Egypt.

In the past week, Turkey has gone from an unhappy observer in the Syrian civil war to a full-blown combatant. Following two attacks by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), the country has begun a bombing campaign targeting both the Islamist militants in Syria and Kurdish separatists in Iraq.

>Non-tariff barriers (NTBs) -- which continue to hamper intra-regional trade and flow in East Africa -- may soon become history if political pronouncements are anything to go by.

Tripartite Free Trade Area needs security
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The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) was signed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia and Mohamed Bilal, the Vice President of Tanzania on June 10. This was ...
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Africa will launch its largest free trade area (FTA) next month.

Uganda’s exports to the 14 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) free trade zone (FTA) will not attract import taxes beginning July, Mr David Wakikona, the minister of State for Trade, has said.

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Regional trade union urges free movement of labour within EAC
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ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- The East African Trade Union Confederation (EATUC) has called on East African Community (EAC) member countries to ease movement of labour by removing barriers on cross-border employment within the trading bloc.
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South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday lent his support to a pan-Africa free-trade area, which he said could be worth as much as $2.6 trillion.