Category: COMESA News

Up Scaling Cassava Clusters: A FEMCOM/COMESA Initiative

As a result of an increase in the use of cassava on the international market, the role of efficient markets and a better coordinated cassava chain have become important to producers and processors who depend on cassava. Market opportunities for farmers and processors include cassava flour as a replacement for wheat flour, cassava starch as…
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Numéro 602 de La Dépêche e-COMESA

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e-COMESA Newsletter Issue No. 602

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COMESA Kicks-off 25th Anniversary Celebrations

Lusaka, Monday, 18 November 2019: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has today launched activities to celebrate its 25 anniversary since its transformation from the Preferential Trade Area (PTA) in 1994. In a press conference conducted at the Secretariat in Lusaka, Zambia, the Secretary General Ms. Chileshe Kapwepwe unveiled the Silver Jubilee programme,…
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COMESA Court Launches Revised Rules of Arbitration

Lusaka, Friday 15 November 2019: The COMESA Court of Justice has launched revised Arbitration Rules aimed at guiding the business of the Court more efficiently in the current dispensation. The launch was conducted in Lusaka during the opening of the 22nd Meeting of COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General. Delegates attending the meeting commended…
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Committee Meeting on Administrative and Budgetary Matters Underway

Lusaka, November 13, 2019: The 40th COMESA Meeting of the Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Matters began in Lusaka today. The focus of the meeting is on strengthening the organization’s structures responsible for implementation of regional programmes at the national level. Over 100 senior officials from Ministries that coordinate COMESA programmes in the 21 Member…
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Numéro 601 de La Dépêche e-COMESA

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eComesa Issue No 601

eComesa Issue 601

COMESA Region Annual Inflation Report, September 2019

The year on year, inflation rate (annual percentage change) in the COMESA region as measured by the Harmonized Consumer Price Index (HCPI-COMESA) stood at 23.4% for the month of September 2019. Read on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LaF7yqEYk0a1Rw78iZvkY3GTqr-bpHwX/view    

Coordonnateur du Programme USAID-COMESA

Le Coordonnateur du Programme USAID au Secrétariat du COMESA sert de point focal pour les initiatives du cadre de partenariat stratégique COMESA-USAID/KEA, en plus des activités relatives au Représentant commercial des États-Unis pour l’Accord-cadre sur l’investissement et le commerce (TIFA). Sous la supervision directe du Secrétaire général adjoint du COMESA –Programmes et sous la supervision…
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