Fighting the Trend: How Africa is Uniting Amidst the Global Retreat from Multilateralism

... able to agree on during the first and second phases of negotiations. Africa is rapidly changing and the continent is approaching a point of change that could reaffirm the continent’s new geopolitical role. With Nigeria and Benin having signed the AfCFTA Agreement at the Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Niamey, Niger, the African movement of multilateralism is gaining force. And whilst the 2019 G20 Leaders’ Declaration underlined global willingness to “realize a free, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, predictable and stable ...