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07/15/2004:

"African integration is still a dream"

New York - Africa has not shaken its colonial-era economic patterns, with intra-African trade accounting for only about 10 percent of total exports and imports, according to a 275-page study released on Wednesday.

As a result the full potential of a vast market has not been realised despite countless efforts toward regional integration, the study by the Economic Commission for Africa said.

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