News:
December 3, 2022
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, in collaboration with other sponsors have sponsored the training of journalists within the West African Sub-region on the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement.
In all thirty journalists from the English speaking West Africa member states and French speaking member states are being hosted in Abuja Nigeria for this training programme.
Dr. Sacko Seydou programme officer competition and informal trade who represented the Commissioner for Trade in an interview with Ghanamps.com noted that the training will offer journalists selected within the West African sub-region the opportunity to better understand issues relating to AfCFTA and put them in a better position to communicate issue better to ECOWAS citizens and civil society on the trade agreement.
He said there is good opportunity for the region to enhance the integration process and the journalists should be the first point of contact to communicate to citizens of the member states and to the private sector.
“That is why we are having this training, to give them good background and information on the agreement for the Commission to fast track it and ensure that member states will be on the same page of understanding on what the two agreement can help us with the integration process”, he said.
He added that as a sub-region, we need to be very competitive, to take advantage of the whole process. We need to gain something, but if within our sub-region people do not know what is going on, then we will be lacking behind; our role now is to communicate”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com