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Lusaka, Wednesday 25 August 2021: COMESA has awarded nine (09) scholarships worth USD 24,300 to students admitted to Kenyatta University in Kenya to pursue a Master’s Degree Programme in Regional Integration. The Scholarship Award Selection Committee sat on 1st July 2021 and considered all the applications based on the scholarship award criteria before awarding the…
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COMESA has congratulated the newly elected 7th President of Zambia, H.E Hakainde Hichilema and the people of Zambia for yet again upholding democratic practices in the country’s political transition. In a statement issued by the Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe, COMESA described the conduct of the just concluded Presidential, Parliamentary and Civic elections as having underlined…
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COMESA, with financial support from the European Union has been implementing the Small-Scale Cross Border Trade Initiative (SSCBTI) which aims at increasing small scale cross-border trade flows in the COMESA Tripartite region. This is being done by facilitating small-scale cross border trade between targeted countries through effective policy and governance reforms, institutional capacity building, improved…
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The COMESA Election Observer Mission to the recently held 12 August 2021 Zambia General Elections noted several good practices that were implemented during the electoral process. Among them, the establishment of conflict management infrastructure to deal with election related conflict.   The establishment of the Election Support Centres at both national and provincial levels to…
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The year-on-year inflation rate for the COMESA region dropped from 131.1% in May 2021 to 129.8% in June mainly due to prices changes in 12 key areas of expenditure namely clothing and footwear, housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, household equipment, transport and communications and recreation and culture. According to the Harmonised Consumer Price…
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The COMESA Federation of Women in Business has made a pitch to regional First Ladies to advocate for legislation and policies that addresses practices that inhibit the full participation of women in the regional, continental and global business.   Speaking at the SADC First Ladies forum on 17th August 2021 conducted in Malawi, COMFWB Executive…
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COMESA Monetary Institute has trained staff of Central Banks from the COMESA region on “Practical application of Bayesian Vector Auto Regressions (BAVR) Approach to the analysis of Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism”.   The training took place from 2nd to 6th August 2021 with 29 delegates from seven Central Banks of COMESA Member States participating, namely…
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