🇪🇹 English, 17 October 2026, AI-powered trade
Africa's Digital Future Hinges on AI-Powered Trade and Digital Capabilities
The continent's economic growth depends on its ability to harness AI and digital technologies.
The rapid ascent of digital trade is reshaping the global economy, with AI opening new frontiers of innovation, productivity, and competitiveness.
However, the benefits of this new economic landscape remain unevenly shared, with persistent disparities in digital connectivity, skills, and access to finance threatening to deepen existing inequalities.
African countries, such as Ethiopia, are making efforts to harness digital technologies for economic development, with initiatives to expand connectivity, deepen digital integration, and strengthen skills.