Today’s SJOL News noon brief from Jamilah Conteh Speaks.
Hello and welcome to Soul Journey of Life. I’m Jamilah Conteh, keeping minds shining bright.
Today from Accra: the AfCFTA Secretariat and Quest Ghana have signed a joint venture to build a Digital Trade Corridor—the first integrated continental digital trade infrastructure of its kind. Secretary-General Wamkele Mene says the corridor will track cross-border deals under AfCFTA rules, connect markets, and help Africa keep more revenue at home through local-currency payments on the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System. Quest Ghana’s Philip Gamey adds plans for a continental minerals and commodities exchange with a Fair Value Index, plus a digital marketplace opening a 1.4 billion person market to farmers and small traders—aiming to lift intra-African trade well beyond today’s roughly sixteen percent.
And tomorrow in Barbados, the third CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations opens—seventeen through nineteen September—deepening Africa–Caribbean–diaspora solidarity and advancing a twenty twenty-seven to twenty thirty-one action plan.
Unity with purpose. Africa trading with Africa. Join the journey at souljourneyoflife.org.
Today’s SJOL News noon brief from Jamilah Conteh Speaks.
Hello and welcome to Soul Journey of Life. I’m Jamilah Conteh, keeping minds shining bright.
Today from Accra: the AfCFTA Secretariat and Quest Ghana have signed a joint venture to build a Digital Trade Corridor—the first integrated continental digital trade infrastructure of its kind. Secretary-General Wamkele Mene says the corridor will track cross-border deals under AfCFTA rules, connect markets, and help Africa keep more revenue at home through local-currency payments on the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System. Quest Ghana’s Philip Gamey adds plans for a continental minerals and commodities exchange with a Fair Value Index, plus a digital marketplace opening a 1.4 billion person market to farmers and small traders—aiming to lift intra-African trade well beyond today’s roughly sixteen percent.
And tomorrow in Barbados, the third CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations opens—seventeen through nineteen September—deepening Africa–Caribbean–diaspora solidarity and advancing a twenty twenty-seven to twenty thirty-one action plan.
Unity with purpose. Africa trading with Africa. Join the journey at souljourneyoflife.org.
Sources
- Ghana News: AfCFTA and Quest Ghana digital trade corridor
- Tech Review Africa: AfCFTA calls for deeper continental integration
- The Voice: CARICOM conference on reparations
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