{"id":18700,"date":"2024-10-09T19:49:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.com\/?p=18700"},"modified":"2024-10-09T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:50:26","slug":"president-kagame-opens-2nd-afcfta-business-forum-biashara-afrika-2024-kigali-9-october-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=18700","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame opens 2nd AfCFTA Business Forum: Biashara Afrika 2024 | Kigali, 9 October 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe journey to establish the world\u2019s largest free trade area began here in Kigali, six years ago. One year later in Niamey, the operational phase of AfCFTA was launched. These two historic moments demonstrate our commitment to the economic unity and prosperity of Africa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We now live in a complex and ever-changing world. But there are a lot of opportunities for us to take advantage of. As a continent, how well we adapt will depend on how strongly connected we are, and on the value we add to our collective wealth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The good news is that integration in Africa is ongoing, and already, we can see positive results.\u201d President Kagame | 2nd AfCFTA Business Forum: Biashara Afrika 2024.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe journey to establish the world\u2019s largest free trade area began here in Kigali, six years ago. One year later in Niamey, the operational phase of AfCFTA was launched. These two historic moments demonstrate our commitment to the economic unity and prosperity of Africa. We now live in a complex and ever-changing world. But there are a lot of opportunities for us to take advantage of. As a continent, how well we adapt will depend on how strongly connected we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18704,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18700\/revisions\/18704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}