The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Doctor Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has called for the introduction of an African visa to help cut the cost of doing business across borders and boost trade within the continent.
Speaking at the annual Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Okonjo-Iweala said Africa has not benefitted fully from the multilateral trading system and remains poorly integrated into global markets.
She says its unacceptable that it costs African countries 20 percent more to trade with each other than with nations outside the continent.