Remarks by African Union Chair President Cyril Ramaphosa at the online media briefing to launch the Africa Medical Supplies Platform
Your Excellency Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the AU Commission,
I'd like to thank you for honouring the invitation to be part of this briefing on important developments in the continental effort to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
It is a continental online portal to enable every single African country to access critical medical supplies needed in the fight against the pandemic.
Finally, and arguably most importantly, with this platform we are laying another building block towards the African Continental Free Trade Area, whose launch has been delayed by the pandemic.
African manufacturers and suppliers will have a platform for their products and services.
Like all these examples of African ingenuity, the Africa Medical Supplies Platform is a product of African excellence, creativity and collaboration.
