AfCFTA is no longer just a trade agreement, it is Africa’s geopolitical insurance policy

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For much of the past decade, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been discussed primarily as an economic integration project: reduce tariffs, simplify cross-border trade, increase intra-African commerce and eventually create a continental market. That framing now feels too narrow.

In the geopolitical environment of 2026, AfCFTA …

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