The efforts to promote trade amongst African countries are aimed at protecting African industries from unfair global trade practices, overcoming costs of long-distance trade, and generally developing continental production capacity.
John Bosco Sebabi, the Deputy Executive Director of PAPSS at Afrexim Bank, says this delay by some central banks to get connected is still a challenge because then, it is hard to trade under the system with a county which is not yet on the system.
The eight countries include; Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda from the East African Community, while the others are the Ghana, the host of the initiative, Cameroon, Egypt, Mauritius and Tunisia.
