Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, H.E Hailemariam Desalegn, who is now the Board Chair of the Alliance for Green Revolution for Africa met with COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe, Saturday, July 16 in Lusaka, Zambia. Their talks focused on AGRA’s bid to become an agency of the African Union. COMESA pledged to support and advocate…
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Lusaka, Zambia, Thursday, 14 July 2022: The African Development Bank and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) have signed a Letter of Agreement for a US$550,000 NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility grant to support a feasibility study for setting up an Africa Cloud Ecosystem (ACE) project. The grant will support the first…
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National consultations on the COMESA Early Warning System (COMWARN) Structural Vulnerability Assessments Methodology (SVAs) got underway in Mauritius on 6 July 2022 involving government and key stakeholders. The three days consultations held in Port Louis aim at developing an early warning system based on structural data. These reports provide Member States with the projected structural…
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COMESA scooped the top award as the best international exhibitor at the just concluded international trade fair that took place in Ndola town in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province 29 June – 5 July 2022. Zambia’s President H.E. Hakainde Hichilema presented the Best International Exhibitor trophy to the COMESA expo team after the official opening of the…
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One of the key roles of a government is to develop the national budget as a guide towards achieving specific development and social objectives. This includes determining the resource envelope namely; domestic revenue (tax and non-tax revenue), donor grants, and the borrowing needs for funding the identified priorities. Quite often, fiscal outturns differ substantially from…
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Rwanda’s Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) engaged in horticulture and agro-processing are set to access the Egyptian market following a successful trade mission facilitated by the COMESA Regional Enterprise Competitiveness and Access to Markets Programme (RECAMP). Fourteen SMEs from the Private Sector Federation accompanied by two officials from the Ministry of Trade and Industry…
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The COMESA Monetary Institute (CMI) has commenced preparatory work towards the production of a Financial Stability Report (FSR) for the COMESA region. The first working group of experts meeting took place in Nairobi, Kenya on 22 – 24 June 2022 with participants from the Central Banks of DR Congo, Egypt, Mauritius, Sudan and Zambia. The…
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022: COMESA and Texas A&M Agrilife Research, USA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support mycotoxin risk management involving aflatoxins and fumonisins for trade commodities and staples. This is a key pillar of mutual recognition of certificates of analysis amongst trading countries. Aflatoxins and fumonisins are naturally occurring toxins and…
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The establishment of a statutory Committee on health and a COMESA health desk are some of the new initiatives by COMESA Secretariat in collaboration with the African Union Center for Diseases Control (AU-CDC) to enhance intra-regional cooperation in the health sector. Towards this end, the two organizations conducted the first meeting on Monday 20 June…
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The Fifth Meeting of the COMESA Sub-Committee on the Kenya Sugar Safeguard conducted a virtual two-day meeting 15-16 June 2022 to consider issues relating to the implementation of the Safeguard. Over the years, Kenya has been granted safeguards by the COMESA Council of Ministers to enable it undertake measures to re-structure its domestic sugar sector…
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