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26 African nations sign deal to form trade bloc

Africa’s largest free-trade zone is to be created covering 26 countries in an area from Cape Town in the south to Cairo in the north.

The deal, signed in Egypt, is intended to ease the movement of goods across member countries that represent more than half the continent’s GDP.

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