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AfCFTA at five: The $3.4 trillion market Africa still won’t trade in

Blessing runs a small shea butter and cosmetics workshop off the Calabar-Ikom Road, and for two years she has been trying to get her cream jars onto the shelves of a cosmetics chain in Bamenda, Cameroon. The order is not the problem; the buyer wants her product and has said so in writing. The problem […] The post AfCFTA at five: The $3.4 trillion market Africa still won’t trade in appeared first…

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