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Speech by Christopher Yaluma Minister of Trade Zambia During the Intergovernmental Committee Meeting 2020

23/11/2020

Download: Speech by Christopher Yaluma Minister of Trade Zambia during the Intergovernmental Committee meeting 2020

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

20/11/2020

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

20/11/2020

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

20/11/2020

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

20/11/2020

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

20/11/2020

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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THE REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE FACILITY (RIFF) PROJECT

20/11/2020

The RIFF project is an Investment Financing Facility Project with funding from the World Bank to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Trade and Development Bank (TDB). The project is scheduled to run from July 2020 to September 2025 and is made up of the following three components: Download>> Regional Infrastructure…
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50 Million African Women Speak Platform Launched in Egypt

19/11/2020

Cairo, November 18, 2020: Egypt became the seventh COMESA Member State to launch the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MAWSP) platform at a colourful event held in Cairo on Wednesday 18 November 2020. The national launch of the platform was presided over by the Deputy Executive Director of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development…
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Zambian Civil Societies to Play Greater Role in Peace and Security

17/11/2020

Chisamba, Zambia, Monday 16 November 2020: Over ten civil society and private sector organizations in Zambia participated in a two-day national consultation workshop on 16-17 November to enhance their role in the COMESA Peace and Security programme as the country prepares to hold general elections in 2021. COMESA in collaboration with the Economic, Social and…
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