African Free Trade Area Implementation Postponed Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
The African Continental Free Trade Area will not be implemented as scheduled on July 1, AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene said, according to a report in the Nigerian newspaper This Day. Rather than focus on meeting the original July 1 deadline,…
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“all governments should be allowed to concentrate their efforts on fighting the [COVID-19] pandemic and saving lives at home,” Mene said. The report cites “strong speculations that the new commencement date might be January 2021.”