Alors que la région est aux prises avec la pandémie de coronavirus dont les effets nets sont le ralentissement de la croissance, des pertes d’emplois et de revenus, une charge de morbidité élevée et des niveaux de pauvreté accrus, le Groupe de travail de la tripartite (GTT) COMESA-EAC-SADC a exprimé sa solidarité avec ses 28…
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This publication comprises a listing of measures that COMESA Member States have put in place to contain the spread of the Corona virus. They cover trade facilitation and support to businesses, protection of the vulnerable from the impact of the spread of the virus and other relevant measures. It also includes the support received from…
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Lusaka, Friday, April 24, 2020: Is Mauritius about to flatten its curve? Data indicates that while the numbers of daily new cases have reduced to less than 10, in the island State, the recoveries have increased significantly. Meanwhile, COMESA region makes up 29.75% of all reported cases in Africa. COVID-19 in COMESA Situational Update 10
بعد عامين ونصف العام من قيادة مجموعة الثلاثية للتجمعات الاقتصادية الإقليمية، الكوميسا تسلم دفّة القيادة للجماعة الإنمائية للجنوب الأفريقي (السادك) اعتباراً من يوم الثلاثاء الموافق 22 أبريل 2020. وتضم الثلاثية ثلاثت تجمعات اقتصادية إقليمية، من ضمنها جماعة شرق أفريقيا (الإياك)، لتشكل إطاراً تعاونياً يهتم بتنفيذ اتفاقية منطقة التجارة الحرة بالثلاثية التي اُطلقت في عام 2015.…
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Lusaka, April 22, 2020:COMESA has handed over the stewardship of the Tripartite group of regional economic communities (RECs) to the Southern Africa Development Community with effect from 22 April 2020. The Tripartite brings together three RECs, including the East African Community into a cooperative framework on the implementation of the Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement…
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Heads of the three regional economic communities, COMESA, EAC and SADC have issued a joint statement of solidarity with their Member/Partner States in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. In the statement issued during the 31st meeting of the Tripartite Task Force conducted through video conferencing, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, the three re-affirmed solidarity with…
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The Master of Regional Integration is a 2-year fully online professional postgraduate programme offered by the University of Mauritius (UoM) in collaboration with COMESA. The programme is 100% course work and is designed on an online platform. It is opened to students around the world, across different continents and across both COMESA and non-COMESA countries.…
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Lusaka, April 18, 2020: Following the successful development and global launch of the 50 Million African Women Speak Platform (50MAWSP) in November 2019, everything was looking up for this first-of its-kind intervention to empower women in the COMESA region and the wider African continent. National launches were supposed to follow. Statewide marketing campaigns had been mooted.…
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Lusaka, Friday, April 17, 2020: Malawi is set to benefit from the enhanced market access for its products through a new COMESA led programme known as the Prioritizing Sanitary and Phyto Sanitary Investments for Market Access (P-IMA). The programme is funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) of the World Trade Organization and…
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Lusaka, Thursday, April 16, 2020: Road and air transport have borne the brunt of the Coronavirus impact as countries put stringent measures to stop the spread of the pandemic. Border congestion, which have been a persistent headache in better times have worsened, with ripple effects on sanitation services. In aviation, the grounding of aircraft poses the…
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