UN pledges support for African countries on AfCFTA

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“We are already working with 16 African governments to develop national strategies to maximise the opportunities created through AfCFTA. '

According to a statement issued by the UN Economic Commission for Africa , she made the pledge on Sunday in Niamey, Niger, at the 12th extraordinary session of the African Union on the AfCFTA.

“In the first instance, the African Regional Integration Trust Fund will support countries to mobilise resources to finance regional integration”, she said. “So we are also working with governments to counterbalance the distributional and gender-differentiated effects of trade liberalisation.” “I urge you to move decisively and quickly during the transitional period up to July 1, 2020, to reap the rewards of this historic agreement.”

 

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