{"id":5024,"date":"2008-12-14T17:51:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2017-06-14T18:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:21:49","slug":"giant-step-toward-a-single-sadc-comesa-eac-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/giant-step-toward-a-single-sadc-comesa-eac-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant step toward a single SADC-COMESA-EAC market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THREE REGIONAL economic blocs have made a giant step towards the long-conceived goal of an African Economic Community, approving the expeditious establishment of an enlarged Free Trade Area (FfA) encompassing 26 Member States in three sub-regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/pre\/SADC_TODAY_vol1_3_December_2008.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/SADC_TODAY_vol1_3_December_2008.jpg?resize=100%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/pre\/SADC_TODAY_vol1_3_December_2008.pdf\">English<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THREE REGIONAL economic blocs have made a giant step towards the long-conceived goal of an African Economic Community, approving the expeditious establishment of an enlarged Free Trade Area (FfA) encompassing 26 Member States in three sub-regions. English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5040,"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-5024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-southern-africa-today"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/fSADC_TODAY_vol1_3_December_2008.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-1j2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","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=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}