INTRODUCTION The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, COMESA is a regional economic body comprising 21 Member Countries. COMESA’s current strategy can be summed up in the phrase “economic prosperity through regional integration”. With a population of over 540 million and global trade in goods worth more than US$ 235 billion, COMESA forms a…
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Implication of COVID 19 in the Future of Global Value Chain This paper presents the prospects of the value chain for Africa’s development and the implication of Covid-19 in the future of global value chain, its benefits and costs, the efforts by some African countries to get into the global value chain and the requirements…
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GRANT NO: 2100155032767PROJECT ID NO: P-Z1-G00-016 The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising the Republic of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The EAC Secretariat has received a grant from the African Development Bank to finance the 50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform Project (50MWS) to create a dynamic Digital…
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Measures in COMESA MS in Response to Covid -19 Vol 11
أكثر من 10 دول اعضاء جاهزة لبدء تجريب شهادة المنشأ الإلكترونية للكوميسا. وتعد شهادة المنشأ الإلكترونية هي إحدى أحدث الأدوات التي تم وضعها بموجب مبادرة منطقة التجارة الحرة الرقمية بالكوميسا. وقد أبدت الدول التالية استعدادها لبدء تجريب نظام شهادة المنشأ الإلكترونية بالكوميسا: بوروندي والكونغو الديمقراطية ومصر وإسواتيني وإثيوبيا وكينيا ومدغشقر وملاوي وموريشيوس ورواندا وسيشيل والسودان…
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تعاونت الكوميسا مع البنك الدولي من أجل تمديد فترة تنفيذ مشروع تيسير التجارة بالبحيرات العظمى لمدة عام واحد. ومن المُتوقع أن يساعد هذا التمديد غير ذي التكلفة في تعويض وقت التنفيذ الذي تهدر أثناء فترة فرض القيود الخاصة بفيروس موفيد – 19. ومن المُتوقع انتهاء فترة مشروع تيسير التجارة بالبحيرات العظمى المقدرة بأربع سنوات في…
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Fifteen COMESA Member States are ready to start piloting the COMESA Electronic Certificate of Origin (eCO) System. The eCO is one of the latest tools developed under the COMESA Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA) initiative. Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have indicated their…
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COMESA has engaged with the World Bank to extend the duration of the implementation period of the Great Lakes Trade Facilitation Project (GLTFP) by one year. The no-cost extension is expected to make up for lost implementation time during the Covid-19 restrictions on movement. The four-year GLTFP is poised to end in December this year…
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The COMESA regional economy is projected to grow at a paltry 0.6% this year down from 5.2% recorded in 2019 and 6.0% in 2018. The slight dip in 2019 was attributed to lower commodity prices while the expected slump in 2020 will result from the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic suggesting a deeper economic…
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Cross Border Traders Association officials at Livingstone town in Zambia, receives a consignment of 1,250 face masks sent by the COMESA Secretariat to support cross border trade. This was part of a 5,000 consignment of masks donated by the International Centre for Small Hydropower (ICSHP) based in China. COMESA and ICSHP have a collaborating framework…
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