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May 24, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Making African continental integration sustainable: digital trade and the role of the AfCFTA

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HCHuman Sciences Research Council

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how digital trade can support the effective implementation of the AfCFTA and enhance continental integration.
  • Examined the operational aspects of the AfCFTA over five years
  • Analyzed impact on digital trade across the 54 signatory nations
  • Assessed the African Union's strategic themes for 2023
  • Identified significant delays in AfCFTA implementation, highlighting operational challenges
  • Showed potential for digital trade to accelerate integration, impacting over a billion people
  • Supported the African Union's vision for a unified market through enhanced trade facilitation

Abstract

Although the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was signed in 2018, moving towards faster operationalization took five years. The agreement, boasting 54 signatories, is one of the world's most extensive free trade agreements and encompasses over a billion people. It aims to establish a unified market, bringing life to the long-standing dream of continental integration. In pursuit of this vision, the African Union's (AU) theme for 2023 was "Acceleration of African Continental Free Trade Agreement Implementation."

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Human Sciences Research Council (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a12964948a0ea1665672f20https://doi.org/10.14749/32361777
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