Botswana inks �Cape to Cairo� trade deal

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Botswana this morning signed the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, (COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) tripartite free trade area agreement, becoming the 22nd country to do so.

When ratified by at least 12 of member states’ parliaments, the tripartite free trade area agreement will come into force, creating the “Cape to Cairo” economic zone envisaged by colonialists of old and pan-Africans of new.

Thus far, only two countries have ratified the deal. The tripartite deal will create a single market of about 700 million people with an estimated gross domestic product of well over $1.4 trillion, experts say.

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Botswana inks �Cape to Cairo� trade deal

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