{"id":1046,"date":"2011-06-09T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2014-08-13T07:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:48:45","slug":"free-trade-area-to-cover-half-of-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/free-trade-area-to-cover-half-of-africa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE TRADE AREA TO COVER HALF OF AFRICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE LEADERS of 26 African countries have taken another major step towards a Free\u00a0Trade Area that would cover the eastern half of Africa, literally from the Cape to Cairo \u2013 from South Africa to Egypt. Meeting in South Africa on 12 June at their second joint Summit, the leaders of three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) formally launched negotiations for the establishment of an integrated\u00a0market of the 26 countries comprising,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/v13n4.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v13n4.jpg?resize=100%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/v13n4.pdf\">English<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/portv13n4.pdf\">Portugu\u00eas<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/frv13n4.pdf\">Fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LEADERS of 26 African countries have taken another major step towards a Free\u00a0Trade Area that would cover the eastern half of Africa, literally from the Cape to Cairo \u2013 from South Africa to Egypt. Meeting in South Africa on 12 June at their second joint Summit, the leaders of three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-southern-africa-today"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-gS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}