Five Horn of Africa Countries Move Toward a Common Architecture for Trade Facilitation

Officials from the ministries of trade and finance of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan met in Nairobi to validate the second edition of the Horn of Africa Initiative’s Regional Trade Facilitation Roadmap. At its core is a simple idea: regional integration can begin by solving shared problems together. Rather than imposing a uniform blueprint, the Roadmap starts with the practical constraints to trade identified on the ground in each country and builds regional solutions around them, turning national challenges into a foundation for collective action and deeper economic integration (read more on Trade Finance Global).