Xinhua Headlines: Africa launches world's largest FTA to boost trade amid rising global protectionism

Participants attend a meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) of the African Union (AU) in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 17, 2018. An agreement to launch the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was signed here Wednesday, thus creating the largest free trade area on the world's poorest inhabited continent. (Xinhua/Lyu Tianran)