CFTA set to unleash Africa’s full potential, says ECA’s Songwe

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Africa’s signature policy reform of 2018, the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), is set to unleash the continent’s full potential with more African countries trading with each other in a wider integrated market, says Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe. In opening remarks to the 5th Annual Ministerial Symposium at the 2018 Mining Indaba that kicked off in Cape Town, Ms. Songwe said the mining sector on the continent was set to benefit the most from the CFTA and could help with the transformation of Africa’s economies.