People Daily | by BBC
Africa’s free-trade area became a reality on 1 January 2021, promising to make it easier to do business across the continent.
The idea, which has been talked about for years, is to create one of the world’s biggest free-trade areas, opening up a market of more than 1.2 billion people, with a combined Gross Domectic Product (GDP) of more than $3 trillion (Sh300 trillion).
This would create business opportunities – and jobs – across Africa, while reducing the cost of some goods in the shops and markets…
