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

African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat (L) and Chairperson of the AU Executive Council and Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo talk at an AU executive council meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 19, 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/Gabriel Dusabe)