LEADER COMMENT COVER STORY

Protecting Africa’s natural wealth Charity begins at home

Advancing economic integration: the case for a single currency

Amid renewed calls for a single currency to boost intra-regional trade, Jon Offei-Ansah looks at the prospects and challenges of establishing a pan-African economic and monetary union that has been envisaged to be in place by 2028 under the Abuja Treaty of 1991

What is the model trade deal for Africa?

Reduced non-tariff barriers, lower intra-African tariffs, improved trade facilitation, and integrated markets can create a large, prosperous, peaceful, and more dynamic environment for trade and investment opportunities for Africa’s partners as well as for Africa’s own enterprises, argues David Luke, who adds that a more developed and integrated Africa is not merely philanthropy, but in everyone’s best interest