Rail – The Key to Making Africa the World’s Largest Free Trade Area

[John Ashworth]

Rail – The Key To Making Africa The World’s Largest Free Trade Area

The recognition of and rectifying the main hinderance to unlocking Africa’s growth which is the free movement of goods and people is a step in the right direction... in 2021, it is still easier to move goods and people between Africa and other parts of the world than within Africa itself... Intra Africa travel by Africans is very miniscule in comparison to their international travel...

Africa’s rail networks are still connected to few countries together but they are an existing infrastructure, which is immediately available for fostering goods exchanges and definitely best placed to support people movement in addition to freight...