Trading Without Borders: An AfCFTA Conversation Series explores the opportunities, challenges, and real-world impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Each episode features candid conversations with policymakers, trade experts, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders shaping the future of cross-border commerce in Africa. We unpack the policies, success stories, and innovations driving intra-African trade, from market access and supply chain integration to digital transformation and regional value chains. Whether you’re a business owner, investor, or policymaker, this series offers actionable insights to help you navigate and thrive in Africa’s single market.
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Trading Without Borders: An AfCFTA Conversation Series explores the opportunities, challenges, and real-world impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Each episode features candid conversations with policymakers, trade experts, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders shaping the future of cross-border commerce in Africa. We unpack the policies, success stories, and innovations driving intra-African trade, from market access and supply chain integration to digital transformation and regional value chains. Whether you’re a business owner, investor, or policymaker, this series offers actionable insights to help you navigate and thrive in Africa’s single market.
The episode explores the realities of informal cross bode4 trade, the logostics blindspots and what a more inclusive and supportive trading environmentcould look like.
Ziad Hamoui,the National President of Borderless Alliance Ghana, walks us through the on the ground experience of clearing goods at African borders and how border inefficiencies impact delivery times, increase spoilage and costs and weaken overall supply chain performance.
Launch of the Trading without Borders four-part mini-series where we go to the fronlines of Africa's trade landscape to explore how goods actually mive across African borders.
The episode explains Nigeria's recent gazetting of its AfCFTA Provisonal Schedule of Tariff Concessions in practical terms and it's impact on Nigerian exporters and goods imported into Nigeria from across the continent.
The episode highlights the discussions on AfCFTA held at the sidelines of the Wolrd Economic Forum 2025, and also the new Ethiopian Government legislation opening its banking sector to foreign investment.
The episode explores how the AfCFTA aims to promote industrialization and foster regional value chains through collaboration with thr Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa.
Mary is the Chairperson of Female Cross border Trades Association in Southern Africa.She shared insights into the opportunities and challenges faced by women in cross border trade in Africa.
The episode wraps up the discussion on the AfCFTA Women and Youth in Trade Protocol, focusing on the institutional arrangements that outline how the protocol’s provisions will be implemented, monitored and evaluated.
The episode explores how the AfCFTA will help women and youth grow their businesses by protecting their ideas and encouraging more involvement in formal cross border trade.
The episode examines the provisions on development of productive and export capacity and access to trade information in the AfCFTA Women and Youth in Trade protocol.
Episode 117 examines the provisions under the AfCFTA Women and Youth Protocol that ensure the inclusivity and participation of women and youth in policy formulation, as well as their access to finance. The episode highlights how these measures aim to empower women and youth in intra-African trade.
Trading Without Borders: An AfCFTA Conversation Series explores the opportunities, challenges, and real-world impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Each episode features candid conversations with policymakers, trade experts, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders shaping the future of cross-border commerce in Africa. We unpack the policies, success stories, and innovations driving intra-African trade, from market access and supply chain integration to digital transformation and regional value chains. Whether you’re a business owner, investor, or policymaker, this series offers actionable insights to help you navigate and thrive in Africa’s single market.
