AfCFTA Implementation Lifts Intra-African Trade by 21%

AfCFTA Implementation Lifts Intra-African Trade by 21%

Nigeria’s trade volume with other African nations reached $9.02 billion in 2025, representing a 21% annual increase. Fresh data highlights the expanding influence of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement on local commerce. Reduced tariff barriers have allowed local manufacturers to penetrate previously restricted regional markets. The surge helps diversify foreign earnings away from…

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Poor Infrastructure Drives Africa’s Trade Costs to 30% – Report

  Africa’s push toward deeper regional integration is being severely undermined by crumbling and, in many cases, absent infrastructure, with logistics expenses consuming up to 30 percent of trade value across the continent, according to a new report from the African Export-Import Bank (AfreximBank). The “Regional Integration and Market Access Insights” report for April 2026…

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Africa Gets Under 10% of $120bn Chocolate Market

  The Cocoa and Coffee Farmers Alliance Association of Africa has revealed that the continent captures less than 10 per cent of the estimated 120 billion global chocolate market, even though African farmers produce approximately 70 per cent of the world’s cocoa beans. The disclosure underscores persistent structural inequities in the global cocoa value chain,…

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