The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), while above all a public health crisis, has presented the African continent with unprecedented economic challenges. In order to contain cross-border transmission of the virus, countries have introduced various restrictions to cross-border and transit freight...

The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) launched a joint one-year pilot project to collect data on informal cross-border trade along the Abidjan– Lagos corridor in the Economic Community...