AfCFTA secretary general: African digital ‘protocol’ aimed to entice U.S. tech

African countries are working to develop a digital trade protocol that would attract U.S. tech investment across the continent -- an arrangement that could spur collaboration and trade without requiring a “legal instrument” between the U.S. and the burgeoning African Continental Free Trade Area, Secretary General of the AfCFTA Secretariat Wamkele Mene tells Inside U.S. Trade. “I believe digital trade is an opportunity for Africa,” Mene said this week in an interview in Washington. “It's an opportunity for Africa...