{"id":2404,"date":"2012-05-27T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/africa-free-trade-zone-to-be-operational-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:37:48","slug":"africa-free-trade-zone-to-be-operational-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/africa-free-trade-zone-to-be-operational-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Free Trade Zone To Be Operational in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Jean Ping has noted that Africa&#8217;s free trade zone is expected to become operational by the end of 2017 through the merger of all African regional trade blocks.}} <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The heads of the states and government have committed to the realisation of a continent wide free trade zone.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>The day celebrates the day that the Organisation of African Unity that transformed to the African Union in 2002 was founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Jean Ping has noted that Africa&#8217;s free trade zone is expected to become operational by the end of 2017 through the merger of all African regional trade blocks.}} &#8220;The heads of the states and government have committed to the realisation of a continent wide free trade zone.&#8221; Ping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}