The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat has entered into a strategic partnership with Rendeavour, Africa’s largest new city developer, to accelerate the implementation of the continental trade agreement through infrastructure-led industrialisation, integrated economic zones, and trade-enabling urban development.
The partnership, signed on the sidelines of the Biashara Afrika 2026 summit, seeks to strengthen Africa’s industrial capacity by promoting Special Economic Zones (SEZs), mobilising private capital for critical infrastructure, and supporting the development of trade and industrial corridors linked to master-planned cities and logistics networks.
Biashara Afrika, the AfCFTA Secretariat’s flagship private sector engagement platform, brought together heads of state, ministers, regulators, investors, and business leaders to explore opportunities for industrialisation, intra-African trade, and private sector-led growth under the continent-wide trade pact.
Under the agreement, Rendeavour will work closely with the AfCFTA Secretariat across three priority areas: advancing the role of Special Economic Zones as engines of industrialisation, attracting private investment into trade-supporting infrastructure, and fostering industrial corridors connected to integrated urban developments across Africa.
