President Akufo-Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged Africa Union (AU) members to back the implementation\u00a0of a mobile phone interoperability system that spans across the continent.<\/p>\n
He argued that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) can be realised more quickly if all member nations establish a continental interoperability network.<\/p>\n
Addressing the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State of the AU over the weekend, President Akufo-Addo said this had been captured in the 2024 Africa Prosperity Dialogues (APD 2024) Compact Document.<\/p>\n
He stated that a \u201ccollective, aggressive embrace of the digital economy and its available tools\u201d by African leaders will significantly boost the continent\u2019s desire to become the world\u2019s largest single market under the AfCFTA.<\/p>\n
He described the interoperability as a \u201cdoable item\u201d in the Compact, which participants at this year\u2019s Africa Prosperity Dialogues unanimously agreed to implement to accelerate and deepen the single market project in Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a low-hanging fruit way of making AfCFTA immediately meaningful to tens of millions of people across Africa,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n
According to him,\u00a0data presented during the Dialogues by the AFDB and supported by the GSM Association, indicated that\u00a0nearly half of all Africans own a sim card and 28% of them\u00a0have access to the internet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw a whopping US$832 billion worth of mobile money transactions in sub-Saharan Africa in 2022 alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis $832 billion 2022 figure is estimated to have grown further by at least 30% last year and to grow significantly more if Africans are allowed to use their mobile money wallets to buy and sell across borders,\u201d he posited.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo contended that the number would increase if all member states had a uniform interoperability system.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine for a moment a world where a market trader in Johannesburg can easily and securely send money to her family in Dakar, without the need for cumbersome currency exchanges or risky cash transfers,\u201d he wooed the African leaders.<\/p>\n
He stated that Africa had the potential to create a future in which people could easily buy goods and services in their local\u00a0currencies across the\u00a0continent\u00a0using mobile phones, and added that\u00a0the necessary technology was available to make it possible.<\/p>\n
According to him, all that\u2019s needed is political will, calling on his fellow leaders in Africa to give off their collective political will to bring about change right away.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, interoperability, if implemented across the 55 states in Africa, is expected to do away with or considerably reduce roaming charges across the continent, as is the case throughout the European Union,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n
The annual Africa Prosperity Dialogues (APD) represents Africa Prosperity Network\u2019s (APN\u2019s) flagship event.<\/p>\n
The three-day retreat, which is held in Ghana, is devoted to discussing and making practical decisions on how to expeditiously implement Africa\u2019s crucial single market project as a means of attaining shared, sustainable prosperity for the continent\u2019s 1.4 billion inhabitants.<\/p>\n
The leaders of business, politics, and other institutions in Africa are expected to attend.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s event was held at the Peduase Presidential Lodge in Aburi between January 25 and 27, 2024.<\/p>\n
Over one thousand participants made up of presidents, prime ministers, ministers, other high-level government officials from across Africa, thought leaders, chief executive officers, and heads of national and multinational institutions, among others, attended the three-day programme.<\/p>\n
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