AfCFTA, the Future Investment Protocol, and the Phasing-Out of Intra-African BITs
As Phase II negotiations of the African Continental Free Trade Area (“AfCFTA”) have been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a draft legal text of the AfCFTA Investment Protocol (“Protocol”) has not been submitted to the January 2021 Session of the Assembly, as originally expected. There are reasons to believe that with the recent start…