Author: Mwangi Gakunga

COMESA Gazette Volume No 22

COMESA Gazette Volume 22

15 pays du COMESA ont mis en place un Fonds pour le développement routier

Quinze des 21 pays du Marché commun de l’Afrique orientale et australe (COMESA) ont mis en place un fonds routier et une agence de développement routier dédiés à la maintenance et au développement des routes pour les réseaux routiers régionaux et nationaux. Il s’agit des pays suivants: Burundi, Djibouti, Égypte, Érythrée, Eswatini, Éthiopie, Kenya, Libye,…
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15 COMESA Countries have Established Road Development Funds

Nairobi, Tuesday, June 18, 2019: Fifteen out of 21 countries in the Common market for Eastern and Southern Africa, (COMESA) have established dedicated Road Funds and Road Development Agencies to undertake maintenance, and development of roads for both the regional and national road networks. These are: Burundi, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi,…
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Focus on Industrialization as COMESA Infrastructure and Industry Experts Meet

Nairobi, Monday, June 17, 2019: The COMESA region has experienced a robust annual real GDP growth of close to 6.5%, but this has not led to economic transformation of the region. According to Principal Secretary in charge of Industry in Kenya, Ms. Betty Maina, this disparity has resulted from preoccupation with low value-added products and…
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Regional Air Transport Liberalization Programme on Course

Nairobi, Monday, June 17, 2019: Six COMESA countries have so far signed the Commitment towards establishment of a single African Air Transport Market. The signing of the instrument, also known as the Solemn Yammassoukro Commitment (YC), by Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, puts the regional Air Transport liberalisation programme on course. This was…
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Kenya Hosts COMESA Ministerial and Technical Meetings on infrastructure and industry

Nairobi, Sunday, June 16, 2019:  Hundreds of delegates drawn from the 21 COMESA Members States have began arriving in Kenya to attend ministerial and technical meetings on infrastructure and industry. The meetings include the 11th joint ministerial and technical committees meetings on transport and communications, information technology (IT) and energy and the 3rd ministerial and technical…
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COMESA, Burundi Affirms Collaboration

Bujumbura, Tuesday, May 4, 2019: A joint meeting between COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe and Burundi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ezéchiel Nibigira, Trade and Tourism Minister, Jean Marie Niyokindi and Permanent Secretary of Finance, Marie Salomé Ndabahariye took place Tuesday this week in Bujumbura. This was the Secretary General’s first visit to Burundi since her…
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Upgrading of Burundi Standards Agency Underway

Bujumbura, Tuesday, June 4, 2019: In the next few months, Burundi is set to increase its export products after an ongoing capacity building programme for its national certification and standardization agency is completed. A total 439,384 euros have been allocated, under the Regional Integration Support Mechanism (RISM), funded by the COMESA Adjustment Facility (CAF), to…
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Preliminary Statement of COMESA Election Observers in Malawi

COMESA Elections’ Observer Mission in the just concluded Tripartite General Elections in Malawi has issue its Preliminary Statement.

COMESA, UNCTAD Launch Deal to Establish Regional Trade Information Portals

Lusaka, Friday, May 24, 2019: COMESA and United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have today launched a Co-delegation Agreement to implement trade facilitation projects in the region. UNCTAD Secretary General Dr Mukhisa Kituyi and his COMESA counterpart Chileshe Kapwepwe launched the Agreement at the COMESA Headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia. Under the Agreement, COMESA…
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