The African Continental Free Commerce Space (AfCFTA), which got here into impact in the beginning of the 12 months, has been heralded as a serious step in rising intra-continental commerce with the potential to stimulate development, industrialisation and generate a further $450 billion for African international locations by 2035.
However connectivity points, together with weak transport infrastructure and the added prices that include it, have been flagged as a big problem to the success of the initiative throughout the continent.
Liberia might be no exception, given the deplorable state of a lot of its street community, with motorbikes the first technique of transporting items and passengers in rural areas.
We comply with cocoa merchants and farmers, as they wrestle to maneuver their crop from harvest to port.