Author: Muzinge Chibomba

Secretary General (SG) Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe has described the deaths of two Cabinet Ministers that occurred recently in Malawi as devastating to the nation and region as a whole. In a message of condolences addressed to the President of Malawi His Excellency Lazarus Chakwera, the SG regretted that the region has continued to lose lives…
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COMESA Secretariat and the Government of Malawi have signed a 3.54 million Euros agreement that sub-delegates the implementation of coordinated border management activities under the broader Trade Facilitation Programme at Mchinji border post between Zambia and Malawi on the Malawian side. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Malawi, Ms. Christina Zakeyo, and Secretary General,…
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Secretary General Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe appeared before Zambia’s Parliamentary Committee in charge of Budgetary Affairs on Friday 22 January and gave an update on various regional integration activities and levels of implementation. With a specific focus on Zambia, Ms Kapwepwe briefed the law makers on different programmes and projects that COMESA is implementing and its…
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The COMESA Business Council (CBC) in partnership with the Trade and Development Bank (TDB) convened a high level Public-Private Dialogue, under the theme, “Towards the COMESA Digital Integrated Common Payment Policy for Micro Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) on 20th January 2021 in Kigali, Rwanda. The public-private dialogue brought together nine pilot-study countries, Central Bank…
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Lusaka, Wednesday 20 January 2021: COMESA Secretariat has awarded 18 scholarships worth USD 50,100 to COMESA citizens who are students admitted to ursue a Master’s egree Programme in Regional Integration at Kenyatta University of Kenya and University of Mauritius. This sponsorship has been facilitated through support from the European Union and the Organization of the…
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Lusaka, Friday 15 January, 2021: Zambia has become the latest country to deposit its instruments of ratification for the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) Agreement with the COMESA Secretariat. This brings the number of countries that have ratified and deposited the TFTA instruments to nine. The Agreement needs a total of fourteen ratifications by Member…
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