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Lusaka, Monday Jan 21, 2019: Secretary General Ms Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe has sent a message of congratulations to Madagascar’s new President His Excellency Andry Nirina Rajoelina for winning the 2018 Presidential elections. President Rajoelina is now the Chairperson of the COMESA Authority taking over from former President Hery Rajaonarimampianina. “As President of Madagascar, you automatically…
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Lusaka, Saturday Jan 19, 2019: Uganda’s Minister of Trade Honourable Amelia Kyambadde met COMESA’s executive management in Lusaka on Saturday January 19 where she was briefed on COMESA’s regional integration programmes in general with a focus on Uganda. Secretary General Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe supported by Assistant Secretary General Administration and Finance Dr Dev Haman, Director…
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Lusaka, Friday, January 18, 2019: The Chairperson of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has sent a message of condolences and solidarity to the President of the Republic of Kenya His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, Government, families and people of Kenya on the recent terror attacks in Nairobi in which more than 20…
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Lusaka, Tuesday, January 8, 2019: The Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy of Somalia in Lusaka, Mr Ahmed Abdirahman Sheikh Nur has revealed that the his country is looking for areas to invest in within the COMESA region. Mr Ahmed said this in Lusaka when he paid a courtesy call on Secretary General Ms Chileshe Kapwepwe…
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Kampala, Tuesday 18 December, 2018: COMESA in collaboration with the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) and TradeMark East Africa have launched a regional initiative that will help strengthen the management of Standards and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures in the region through a programme called Prioritization of SPS investments for Market Access (P-IMA). P-IMA is a…
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[vc_row][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Nairobi, Friday, December 14, 2018: Only seven out of the 21 States in the Eastern and Southern Africa region have so far harmonized their national seed regulations with the regional seed trade harmonization regulations. They are; Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The harmonization of seed laws under the COMESA Seed Harmonization…
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