WIRE โ€” The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat has said it is banking on the mechanisation and digitisation of customs systems across the continent to double Africa's $220 billion intra-African trade, as it signed a 20-year concession agreement to drive the process. The agreement, signed between AfCFTA Holdings Limited, the AfCFTA Secretariat and AfriTrade CMP

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