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…
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COVID-19 in COMESA Update No. 8
من المزمع استفادة ملاوي من تعزيز فرص وصول منتجاتها إلى الأسواق من خلال البرنامج الجديد الذي تقوم الكوميسا بريادته والذي يعرف بإيلاء الأولوية للاستثمارات في مجال الصحة والصحة النباتية بهدف الوصول إلى الأسواق. ويقوم مرفق المعايير وتنمية التجارة التابع لمنظمة التجارة العالمية بتمويل البرنامج إضافة إلى تسلم البرنامج للدعم المالي من برنامج تيسير التجارة التابع…
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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…
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SITUATIONAL UPDATE_COVID_19#7
eCOMESA Newsletter Issue 618
Lusaka, Tuesday, April 14, 2020: With the outbreak and the global spread of the Coronavirus, the looming socioeconomic and political ramifications will be severe. This is largely because of the costly but necessary measures that have been established to contain the spread. According to an analytical report prepared by the Governance, Peace and Security (GPS)…
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Les ramifications socio-économiques et politiques imminentes s’annoncent graves avec la flambée et la propagation du Coronavirus au niveau mondial. Cela est en grande partie dû aux mesures coûteuses mais nécessaires mises en place pour contenir la propagation de la pandémie. Le rapport analytique élaboré par le Programme Gouvernance, Paix et Sécurité (GPS) du Secrétariat du…
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Au cours des cinq dernières années, le Système régional de paiement et de règlement du COMESA (SRPR) a enregistré des transactions de plus de 138 millions USD et près d’un million d’euros par l’intermédiaire de neuf banques centrales participantes. Selon le Secrétaire exécutif de la Chambre de compensation du COMESA, M. Mahmood Mansoor, cette valeur…
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