AfCFTA To Grow African Trade By $35bn   (AfCFTA), if successfully implemented, would increase intra-African trade by as much as $35 billion or 52 per cent yearly above the baseline by 2022, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) said at the weekend. The Council’s Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer,...

To Enhance African Trade, Afreximbank Urges Infrastructure Upgrade   Africa must urgently upgrade its maritime and logistic infrastructure in order to successfully promote the continent’s trade, especially intra-African trade, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has said. In an address at the Africa Shipowners Summit in Seychelles recently,...

The sum of $400 million has been pledged by African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to finance and promote trade between African countries and Belarus. A statement by Afreximbank quoted its President, Dr Benedict Oramah, as announcing the pledge when he met with Belarus officials and bankers...