The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Jean Ping has noted that Africa’s free trade zone is expected to become operational by the end of 2017 through the merger of all African regional trade blocks.
“The heads of the states and government have committed to the realisation of a continent wide free trade zone.”
Ping said in a speech read on his behalf by the AU Commission Chairperson Special Representative to Somalia Boubacar Diarra during the commemoration of the 49th anniversary of the Africa Day on Friday.
The day celebrates the day that the Organisation of African Unity that transformed to the African Union in 2002 was founded.
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