Fighting the Trend: How Africa is Uniting Amidst the Global Retreat from Multilateralism

Despite worldwide trends towards protectionism, Africa, a rapidly changing continent, is preparing to create a trading bloc of 52 economies.... ... Russia — Africa Summit: Exploring What the Partnership Has to Offer The 2019 Think 20 (T20) Summit Communique, and later the G20 Leaders’ Declaration, echoed growing global... ... Nigeria and Benin having signed the AfCFTA Agreement at the Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Niamey, Niger, the African movement of multilateralism is gaining force...