Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General AfCFTA Secretariat
The Africa World Trade Network (AWTN), an initiative set to boost trade on the African continent, has been launched in Accra.
In the wake of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the AWTN seeks to lead the way in pursuing tailored trade solutions in the best interest of Africans.
Speaking at the event, the secretary-general of AfCFTA, Wamkele Mene, lauded the initiative and made an audacious call to African leaders to dissolve barriers to free movement of Africans across the continent.
”It is inconceivable that in 2022, as Africans, we require visas to enter other African countries,” he said.
”The signing of AfCFTA should be accompanied with free movement of persons across the African continent. This will boost trade and immensely benefit the continent,” he added.
The deputy minister for Trade, Michael Okyere Baafi, who spoke on behalf of Alan Kyerematen, Minister of Trade, pledged the ministry’s unwavering support to AWTN “for our collective good.”
AWTN
AWTN is a pan-African events and networking platform that specialises in multi-sectoral trade-related programmes facilitation and organisation, while proposing trade-specific policy frameworks through corporate and public partnerships.
The platform provides the perfect framework to scaffold private sector actors, government and development partners onto initiatives to spur Africa’s economic gains with the aim of making the continent globally competitive.
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