Author name: Peter Adetor

Article 7 of the AfCFTA Protocol mandates the ‘Participation of Women and Youth in Trade Policy Formulation.’ and we put this into practice. The National AfCFTA Dialogue was organised by the National AfCFTA Coordination Office, the Ministry of Trade Agribusiness and Industry, and UNDP Ghana under the theme “Empowering Ghanaian Women and Youth-Led/Owned MSMEs for

By tackling two major bottlenecks; tariff and non-tariff barriers, Africa through the AfCFTA is paving the way for a truly integrated market. Cheaper trade, smoother borders, and shared standards mean more opportunities for businesses and communities across the continent. While progress is steady, let’s remember the scale: this is the largest trade agreement in the

  Accra, Ghana – ASSETS Africa has released the official post-mission report for the 2025 Ghana Trade Mission to South Africa, marking a watershed moment for Ghanaian enterprises seeking to expand across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Held from 29th November to 6th December, the mission successfully bridged Accra’s commercial dynamism with Johannesburg’s

GIRSAL, USAID Ghana Trade and Investment Activity, VegPro Kenya, and other partners have initiated a pilot project to grow and export chili pepper using net house technology to meet the phytosanitary requirements of the EU market. This move is part of GIRSAL’s 5-year strategic plan to support export-related value chains such as vegetables, avocado, mango,

African countries’ trading relationships have been changing in recent years. Trade with their traditional trading partners, the European Union and the United States (their ‘old’ friends) is declining. Trade with ‘new’ friends, such as China and India, is growing. For South Africa in particular, the rest of Africa has become a very important export destination.

The global community faces immense challenges, from eradicating poverty and hunger to promoting economic growth and combating climate change. To address these pressing issues, the United Nations (UN) introduced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Simultaneously, the African Union launched the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) with the aim of fostering regional integration

The Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the development impact-focused subsidiary of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has announced the accession of the Gabonese Republic and the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Fund through their recent respective signing of the FEDA Establishment Agreement. FEDA described the accession by the two countries as a significant

The umbrella bodies of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) private sector have called for the removal of visas and reduction of custom processes to ease movement of goods within the African continent. The African Business Council (AfBC) that brings together regional economic communities (RECs) decried inconsistent and inadequate freight and logistics at the