Lusaka, Monday, November 25, 2019: Last weekend in Lusaka, Zambia was a sports festival as 120 golfers and 16 football teams participated in the COMESA @25 sports activities in the countdown to the regional bloc’s silver jubilee anniversary scheduled on Thursday, November 28, 2019. On Friday, 120 golfers participated in the COMESA 25th Anniversary Golf tournament…
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Lusaka, Sunday, November 24, 2019: COMESA Institutions and the Secretariat have developed a draft framework of cooperation. The tool is intended to deepen collaboration and synergy in the delivery of their different mandate towards their common goal of promoting regional integration. In a one-day retreat conducted in Lusaka, Zambia on Sunday, November 24, 2019, the…
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Lusaka, Friday 22 November 2019: Over 100 golfers are participating in the COMESA 25th Anniversary Golf tournament at the Bonanza Golf course in Lusaka, Zambia. The tournament attracted players from the international and business community, diplomatic corps, government academia and ordinary citizens. The main sponsor of the event is the Trade and Development Bank (TDB).…
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Nairobi, Thursday, November 21, 2029: In recent weeks, the COMESA Monetary Institute has scaled up capacity building initiatives targeted mainly at staff of Central banks in Member States. The main objective of these initiatives is to improve macroeconomic management and financial stability in the region with the aim of enhancing the COMESA Monetary Integration Programme.…
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Lusaka, November 20, 2019: Egypt is the eighth COMESA Member State to domesticate the COMESA Seed Trade Harmonisation Regulations. This follows the signing of a Gazette notice by Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Prof. Ezaldin Abusteit. Egypt now joins Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, which have completely aligned their national seed…
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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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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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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
Nairobi, Tuesday, November 5, 2019: COMESA has developed a draft Regional Resilience Framework to build the capacity of its members to withstand disasters occasioned by adverse effects of climate change. The development of the framework has been informed by the increasing vulnerability of regional countries, to climate change and other disasters such as flooding, landslides,…
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Lusaka, Thursday, October, 31, 2019: Ministers responsible for infrastructure from the tripartite group comprising COMESA, the East Africa Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have called for the speedy implementation of regional infrastructure programmes in energy, transport and Information Communication Technology (ICTs) sectors to accelerating economic integration. This was after reviewing the…
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