It aims to eradicate tariffs and create single market for a potential market worth $2.5 trillion.
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is the largest free-trade in the world, spanning the African continent with its 1.2 billion people, and came into effect, on, having been signed by 52 of the AU's 55-member states. More specifically, he adds, "we are a big fan of the AfCFTA and this union will further serve our interest as Africa morph into a single market" Tijani believes the tech environment in Africa will be strengthened by the purchase, which will get "the two most prolific start-up ecosystems in Africa closer". Two of the engineers I met – Fausto and Mark – designed a system to help people use mobile payments to buy small amounts of cooking gas, which is a lot safer and better for the environment than charcoal or kerosene." His comments came after meeting some local Kenyan entrepreneurs: "I'm starting at a place called iHub, where entrepreneurs can build and prototype their ideas. On the same 2016 trip, Zuckerberg visited Nairobi's iHub, about which he said: "It's inspiring to see how engineers here are using mobile money to build businesses and help their community". Can you beat that? Awesome time hosting a genuine world changer." Yaba is in the capital Lagos and is considered the closest to a Silicon Valley, and is home to CcHUB, wrote on its Facebook page at the time: "We were Mark Zuckerberg's FIRST STOP on his FIRST TRIP EVER to Sub-Saharan Africa. I'm looking forward to meeting more people here!" Zuckerberg wrote. I got to talk to kids at a summer coding camp and entrepreneurs who come to CcHub to build and launch their apps.
"Our first stop is the Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB) in Yaba," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. Before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise visit to Nigeria in 2016 and visited CcHub as his first destination, most people outside of the Africa tech ecosystem would never have heard of the Nigeria incubator and coworking space.