AU Launches an all-Africa Passport

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AU passport

Somalilandsun- As Brexit triggers a suspected collapse of the European Union, Africans are thinking about facilitating ease of continental movement.

On June 13, two weeks before the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the African Union announced a new “single African passport.” The lead-up discussion was much like the original debate on the European Economic Community, the E.U.’s predecessor. African passport proponents say it will boost the continent’s socioeconomic development because it will reduce trade barriers and allow people, ideas, goods, services and capital to flow more freely across borders.

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