AfCFTA gets real after a pandemic-induced lull
SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY KENYA’S recent twin shipment of batteries and tea to Ghana –– the first from an East African economy under AfCTFA –– has injected fresh impetus into the fledgling free trade outfit. They also underscore the importance of the trade area to export receipts amid biting global supply chain disruptions. The shipments are a part of a trial phase to ramp up trade under AfCFTA involving Kenya, Ghana and six other states: Cameroon, Egypt, Mauritius, Rwanda, Tanzania and Tunisia. Last week, AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene revealed that at least 96 different products from the eight countries…