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Private sector urged to seize AfCFTA opportunities

With geopolitical disruptions and inconsistent trade relations amongst nations, African economies have been called on to rely on one another to weather the storms. SADC Executive Secretary, Elias Magosi, said last week that shifting U.S. tariff regimes to the prolonged war in Ukraine are destabilising global value chains.

He added that these disruptions raise freight costs and squeeze the already fragile job markets across Southern Africa.

“These developments force us to confront a hard reality: Africa must rely more on itself,” Magosi said at a high-level African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) conference in Gaborone.

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