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

African Union Chairperson and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame signs the agreement establishing the African Union Free Trade Area in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21, 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/Stringer)