Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has called for stronger efforts to ensure that small businesses, women, and young people benefit fully from Africa’s economic integration agenda under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Delivering a speech on behalf of President John Dramani Mahama at the 2026 Africa Prosperity Dialogues held under the theme “Empowering SMEs, Women and Youth in Africa’s Single Market: Innovate, Collaborate, Trade, she said the vision of Africa as a single, integrated economic space remains incomplete, despite decades of Pan-African cooperation.