Africa Free Trade Area has been ratified
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The African Continental Free Trade Area is now in full effect, after 23 countries out of 44 signed an agreement to create one African market which could potentially be worth trillions of dollars.
Plus "Anatomy of Killing": The BBC Africa Eye program investigated a viral video which showed a group of women and children being blindfolded and shot in an unknown location.The Cameroonian government dismissed it as fake news, but the programme was able to find out where it happened and who was responsible.
(Image: Heads of government in agreement with AFCTA. Credit: Getty)
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