Africa must tear down barriers to integration — Otchere-Darko

He said the failure to implement commitments made under the Abuja Treaty and the African Union (AU) Protocol on Free Movement of Persons was undermining the continent’s ambition of creating a single African market.

Africa must move beyond signing treaties and declarations to actually implementing free movement and seamless cross-border payments if the continent is to achieve meaningful economic integration, the Founder and Executive Chairman of Africa Prosperity Network (APN), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has said.

Harmonisation The Director of Infrastructure, Industrialisation, Trade and Regional Integration at the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, Amin Idris Adum, said free movement and trade would remain difficult unless African countries harmonised their laws, regulations, standards and systems.