THE AFRIONE NETWORK Alignment with Africa Union & AfCFTA
The African Union (AU) is a continental body consisting of the 55 member states that make up the countries of the African Continent. It was officially launched in 2002 as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU, 1963-1999).
The main objectives of the OAU were to rid the continent of the remaining vestiges of colonisation and apartheid; to promote unity and solidarity amongst African States; to coordinate and intensify cooperation for development; to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Member States and to promote international cooperation. The OAU Charter spelled out the purpose of the Organisation namely:
- To promote the unity and solidarity of the African States;
- To coordinate and intensify their cooperation and efforts to achieve a better life for the peoples of Africa;
- To defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity and independence;
- To eradicate all forms of colonialism from Africa; and
- To promote international cooperation, having due regard to the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Aligning with The African Continental Free Trade Area
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is one of the Flagship Projects of Agenda 2063 Africa’s development framework. The AfCFTA was approved by the 18th ordinary Session of Assembly of Heads of State and Government, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2012 which adopted the decision to establish an African Continental Free Trade Area and the Action Plan for Boosting intra-African trade as a key initiative whose implementation would promote socio-economic growth development. The AfCFTA aims at accelerating intra-African trade and boosting Africa’s trading position in the global market by strengthening Africa’s common voice and policy space in global trade negotiations.
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. The pact connects 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4 trillion. It is expected to lift around 68 million people out of moderate poverty and make African countries more competitive. But successful implementation will be key, including careful monitoring of impacts on all workers—women and men, skilled and unskilled—across all countries and sectors, ensuring the agreement’s full benefit.”
Story Highlights
- The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) presents a major opportunity for African countries to bring 30 million people out of extreme poverty and to raise the incomes of 68 million others who live on less than $5.50 per day.
- With the implementation of AfCFTA, trade facilitation measures that cut red tape and simplify customs procedures would drive $292 billion of the $450 billion in potential income gains.
- Implementing AfCFTA would help usher in the kinds of deep reforms necessary to enhance long-term growth in African countries.
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THE AFRIONE NETWORK IS IN SUPPORT OF BOTH:
The AfriOne Network, we are in full support of the African union agenda and its objectives basing on a standpoint of access and opportunities for all Africans in her continent. We strive at becoming the leading solution provider of this generation, a solution in business, nation-building, and a fair access to systems, structures, and opportunities for all. The AfriOne Network is committed to providing its stakeholders with innovative services, workshops, and comprehensive information thereby providing sturdy growth opportunities in various industries through our firm belief in fostering social cohesion and creation opportunities.
Part of The AfriOne Networks Aims and objectives is to Achieve greater unity and solidarity between African countries and their people, also those in diaspora and accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of the continent starting from its people having access and opportunities in all sectors of interest. At The AfriOne Network, we provide credible insight that aids in making well-informed decisions for the growth and success of the existing and emerging African entrepreneurs.
The African Union’s position has numerous aspirations one of them being “Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states”. This then enforces us as The AfriOne Network Members to begin to provide platforms to provide practical solutions to achieve Africa’s economic development goals amongst its people including Africans in the diaspora.
It is for this reason that The AfriOne Network is duly positioned to give platforms for various stakeholders within the continent to shape, inform, enlighten, challenge status quos, and give solutions, most especially in South Africa, where the AU was established. Engagements will be based on views and suggestions of African envoys on the continent where they will share information about opportunities, provide access to well-meaning Africans who are key to the development of the continent.
As the nations of Africa develop, the people also need to understand what is available within our continent in terms of policy, ease of access to markets and doing business, available opportunities and accelerating intra-African trade by boosting Africa’s trading position within the continents markets by strengthening Africa’s common voice and policy space including trade negotiations.
The AfriOne Network will endeavour to bring together various role players of the South African markets, players in the industry both in government and private sectors to address challenging issues and provide solutions to move forward to a sustainable African community with one common agenda of accessing opportunities for all Africans in her continent.
The AfriOne Network Alignment and objectives are…
- Achieve greater unity and solidarity between African countries and their people, including those in diaspora;
- Defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of its Member States with the main focus of removing barriers of doing business on the continent by facilitating trade and investment promotion initiatives, sharing of common values and resources;
- Promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples;
- Encourage African cooperation by Promoting peace, security, and stability on the continent;
- Promote democratic principles and institutions, popular participation and good governance thereby producing change agent leaders and game-changers in all sectors;
- Promote and establish the necessary conditions which enable the nations of Africa to play their rightful role in the continent’s sustainable markets and developments of its economy through the integration of African economies;
- Promote cooperation in all sectors to raise the living standards of African peoples by accessing opportunities for Africans to compete on a global scale through access to funding;
- Discuss coordinated and harmonising the policies between the existing and future Regional Economic Communities for the gradual attainment of a sustainable and successful continent;
- Provide a platform for the advanced development of the continent by promoting research in all fields, in particular in science and technology and all other sectors;
- Work with relevant partners, stakeholders, Government, and private sector affiliates in the eradication of poverty on the continent;
- Ensure the effective participation of women in decision-making processes, particularly in the economic and socio-cultural platforms;
- Promote common policies on trade and investment promotion; and
- Promotion of the full participation of the African Diaspora as an integral part of our Continent in the building of the Africa we want.
The AfriOne Network is an African initiative for Africans in Africa and in the diaspora. This initiative is necessitated by what we have witnessed over decades through young entrepreneurs in Africa, consisting of over 60% of the population, who remain at the mercy of systems that seek to separate them.
The AfriOne Network seeks to bridge the gap and divide by providing tools to actively participant on the development of the continent towards a future they want basing on past experiences and lessons learnt.
The AfriOne Network’s has positioned itself to operate in multiple industries in order to enrich life through providing practical information, insight, opportunities, and services which will expose stakeholders to available opportunities on the continent and beyond. The applicable techniques will be done through leveraging our experience and expertise in the ISDI Sector (Information and Service Delivery Industry), partnering with various influential stakeholders in the African markets as we help bridge the gaps present in each country by providing key information and leads on available opportunities regardless of geographic location while at the same time, contributing to the sustainable development of society and the economy. vironment.