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African leaders meeting at the Tripartite summit in Egypt this week are hoping to sign off on a major new free trade agreement.The deal would facilitate trade between three major African economic blocs the East African Community, Southern African Development Community and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. As CCTV’s Yasser Hakim reports, the agreement would bring together 26 countries, which account for more than half of Africa’s GDP