Month: April 2020

Heads of the three regional economic communities, COMESA, EAC and SADC have issued a joint statement of solidarity with their Member/Partner States in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. In the statement issued during the 31st meeting of the Tripartite Task Force conducted through video conferencing, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, the three re-affirmed  solidarity with…
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The Master of Regional Integration is a 2-year fully online professional postgraduate programme offered by the University of Mauritius (UoM) in collaboration with COMESA. The programme is 100% course work and is designed on an online platform. It is opened to students around the world, across different continents and across both COMESA and non-COMESA countries.…
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Lusaka,  April 18, 2020: Following the successful development and global launch of the 50 Million African Women Speak Platform (50MAWSP) in November 2019, everything was looking up for this first-of its-kind intervention to empower women in the COMESA region and the wider African continent. National launches were supposed to follow. Statewide marketing campaigns had been mooted.…
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Lusaka, Friday, April 17, 2020: Malawi is set to benefit from the enhanced market access for its products through a new COMESA led programme known as the Prioritizing Sanitary and Phyto Sanitary Investments for Market Access (P-IMA). The programme is funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) of the World Trade Organization and…
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Lusaka, Thursday, April 16, 2020: Road and air transport have borne the brunt of the Coronavirus impact as countries put stringent measures to stop the spread of the pandemic. Border congestion, which have been a persistent headache in better times have worsened, with ripple effects on sanitation services. In aviation, the grounding of aircraft poses the…
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Lusaka, Tuesday, April 14, 2020: With the outbreak and the global spread of the Coronavirus, the looming socioeconomic and political ramifications will be severe. This is largely because of the costly but necessary measures that have been established to contain the spread. According to an analytical report prepared by the Governance, Peace and Security (GPS) Programme…
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Lusaka, Friday, April 10, 2020:  The COMESA Regional Payment and Settlement System (REPSS) has recorded over $138 million dollars and nearly one million Euros in value transacted through the nine participating Central Banks over the last five years ending 31 January 2020. According to the Executive Secretary of the COMESA Clearing House (CCH) Mr. Mahmood Mansoor,…
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Lusaka, Monday, April 6, 2020: COMESA has developed a Manual for  harmonized regional grading and classification system of beef cattle, goats and sheep. The Manual will be launched at the next meeting of Ministers of Agriculture and Livestock later this year. It will be used across COMESA Member States to facilitate trade between livestock buyers and…
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