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COMESA Sub-delegates to Zambia, the Upgrading of Selected Border Posts

Friday, November 27, 2020: COMESA and the government of Zambia have signed an agreement that sub-delegates the implementation of coordinated border management activities and trade and transport facilitation programme in three border posts in the country. The sub-delegated activities are worth Euro 6,688,560 and will support upgrading of priority cross-border infrastructure and equipment at Mwami,…
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COVID-19-in-COMESA_Situational-Update-38

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eCommerce has Sustained Economies During COVID-19, Zambia VP

There is need for more development of electronic education (e-Education) and e-Health infrastructure especially in rural areas to ensure marginalized people are not cut off from development enjoyed in cities and urban areas at this time of COVID-19. According the Vice President of Zambia Mrs. Inonge Wina, improvements in telecommunications have come to the rescue…
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Impacts of COVID-19 in Focus at the 2020 COMESA Policy Organs’ Meetings

Lusaka, November 23, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic constituted a key discussion point in the just concluded COMESA policy organs meetings, owing to its predominant negative impacts on regional integration and more so on the movement of goods and services. As he opened the 41st Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee, Monday 23rd November, Zambia’s Minister of…
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Speech by Christopher Yaluma Minister of Trade Zambia During the Intergovernmental Committee Meeting 2020

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Governments` Staff to Serve as External Auditors for COMESA …as justice ministers, AGs adopt legal instruments for auditors

The COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General have adopted the COMESA Board of External Auditors (COBEA) instruments which will now govern its operations as external auditors for COMESA. The COBEA legal instruments include the Rules of Procedure, the Standard Operating Procedures, the Quality Assurance Manual and the Financial Auditing manual. COBEA is made up…
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COMESA Scales-Down 2021 Budget to Leverage on ICT

COMESA Secretariat has prepared a scaled-down budget for 2021 to leverage on information technology in carrying out its activities. The decision was informed by the performance of this year’s budget, which recorded significant savings under meetings, workshops and conferences, which constitutes a significant percentage of the expenditure. The adoption of virtual meetings was occasioned by…
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COMESA Records Increased Annual Inflation Rate

The annual inflation rate for the month of September 2020 increased to 81.9% up from 23.4% recorded in the same month last year. This means that prices of goods and services in the participating Member States went up.. According to the latest Harmonized Consumer Price Index (HCPI) which measures inflation rate in the COMESA region,…
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COMESA Court Gets New Judge

Justice Salohy Norotiana Rakotondrajery Randrianarisoa has been elected Judge of the Appellate Division of the COMESA Court of Justice. The election took place during the 23rd meeting of COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorney’s General on 18 November 2020. Justice Randrianarisoa, a Senior Judge and Director General of Judicial Affairs, Research and Reforms at the…
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Tunisia Host eBusiness Forum

The Tunisian Export Promotion Center – CEPEX in partnership with GIZ, in the context of the German Development cooperation with Tunisia, organized an online business-matching event dubbed “Tunisia Africa E-Business Meetings on 18th-19th and 20th of November 2020. The event brought together more than 600 Tunisian exporting companies and partners from Sub-Saharan African countries to…
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