The 12 Action Priorities

The blueprint for integration already exists in signed treaties and protocols. These twelve action priorities represent the unfinished business of African unity, now claimed by its people.

Abolish Visas for Africans in Africa

Africa cannot integrate if its entrepreneurs cannot move. Visa restrictions raise costs, delay deals, and stifle opportunity. Abolishing visas for Africans travelling within Africa treats mobility as essential economic infrastructure, enabling businesses to explore markets, establish partnerships, and deploy talent freely across the continent.

Open Africa’s Skies Now

Closed skies keep Africa expensive and disconnected. Fully implementing the Yamoussoukro Decision and the Single African Air Transport Market will slash airfares, connect cities directly, and turbocharge trade, tourism, and logistics—expanding markets and creating jobs.

Launch One African Biometric Passport & Digital ID

Enterprises need speed, trust, and certainty. A single African biometric passport and interoperable digital ID will simplify travel and business establishment, support secure digital services, and lower verification costs, turning seamless movement into a driver of secure economic activity.

Activate the AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol

Make Cross-Border Payments Seamless Across Africa

Intra-African trade requires frictionless finance. The full operationalisation of the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) and continent-wide mobile-money interoperability will reduce transaction costs, keep value circulating within Africa, and save billions lost annually to foreign currency conversion.

Unlock African Talent Through Mutual Skills Recognition

African enterprises need skills—and Africa has them. Mutual recognition of professional and vocational qualifications will allow firms to recruit continent-wide, deploy staff across markets, and build the specialised, competitive teams needed for global success.

Harmonise Standards to Create One African Market

Multiple national standards force businesses to treat Africa as 54 separate markets. Harmonising regulations ensures goods approved in one country can be sold across the continent, unlocking manufacturing, agro-processing, and light industry, and enabling enterprises to scale into true continental brands.

Establish One African Customs Union

The AfCFTA cannot reach its potential without a customs union. The Abuja Treaty’s 2028 deadline for this must be honoured. A digitised, unified customs system will reduce delays, boost industrialisation and cross-border trade, lower costs for SMEs, and attract global manufacturers to set up operations in Africa.

Build Continental Infrastructure That Connects Africa

Enterprises cannot scale on disconnected infrastructure. We must invest jointly in roads, rail, ports, energy, and digital networks. Innovative financing—such as the proposed One-Dollar-a-Day African Infrastructure Fund—can mobilise citizen savings, pension funds, and private capital into bankable projects that physically unite the continent.

Enforce Integration Through the African Court of Justice

Markets require rules, and rules require enforcement. Operationalising the African Court of Justice will provide certainty and protection for enterprises against arbitrary barriers, ensuring the single market is governed by law, not just aspiration.

Put SMEs, Women, and Youth at the Centre of Trade

Women and youth-led SMEs dominate African trade yet face the highest barriers. Full implementation of the AU/AfCFTA Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade is essential to ensure access to finance, simplified procedures, safe mobility, and true continental market access for our most dynamic entrepreneurs.

Negotiate as One Africa on the Global Stage

Fragmented Africa is a price-taker; integrated Africa is a rule-maker. Negotiating as one bloc on trade, digital governance, and climate action strengthens African enterprises globally. Unity is not merely symbolic—it is the foundation of economic power and self-determination.

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