The year 2018 coughed up some big economic and business issues, top of the list being the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA. The AfCFTA is supposed to birth the world’s largest free trade area since the World Trade Organization which was formed in 1995. The economic protests has since morphed into a call for the end to the presidency of Omar Al-Bashir, one of the continent’s longest serving leaders. Over in north Africa, economic protests hit Tunisia and Morocco. Economic protests were heightened especially with opposition involvement at a time when the country had just come out of a heated election.

Source: Ethiopian News December 27, 2018 03:56 UTC