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Seeks to increase production from the 40,000 acres to about 100,000 acres

This was during the 59th African Economic Research Consortium’s (AERC) workshop in Nairobi.

The government has finalised the preparation of the Draft Protocol on Women and Youth in Business within the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA).

The Executive Chairman of the Africa Prosperity Network (APN), organisers of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues (APD), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has called on Ghanaian businesses to, as a matter of priority, begin positioning themselves to take advantage of all the opportunities that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) offers.

African MSMEs hold immense potential to drive innovation in Africa’s systems, representing 60 percent of the population under 25.

AfCFTA aims to establish a single market of 1.3 billion consumers with a combined GDP of $3.4 trillion, making it the biggest free trade area in the world by number of participating countries.

Kenya Association of Manufacturers has also called for investment in research.

We must also ensure that the benefits of expanded intra-African trade are shared across the continent

Sub-Saharan currencies hit, driving up cost of living

Managers of Nigeria, Kirbi, Lome and Gabon ports have called for continuous improvement of the security architecture in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) in response to the morphology of threats prevalent in the region.