20
Jun
The Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat Wamkele Mene has advocated strongly for the removal of trade barriers in Africa so that the dream of the establishment of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA would be achieved. He noted that that vision had been grounded in the objective of the integration of African trade finance. Describing Afreximbank and the AfCFTA as twins born 30 years apart, Mene noted that if trade barriers were eliminated but there was no trade finance, all the efforts would come to nothing. At the same time, if trade finance was available but trade barriers persisted…