Author: Muzinge Chibomba

24th COMESA Summit Held in Kenya

The 24th COMESA Heads of State and Government Summit was held on 9 October 2025 in Nairobi Kenya with a call for concerted efforts to deepen intra-regional trade among the 21 Member States. Heads of State from Burundi, Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zimbabwe were joined by Prime Ministers, Vice Presidents and other leaders from the…
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COMESA Clearing House Advances Digital Retail Payments Platform to User Trials Across Malawi – Zambia 

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Clearing House (CCH) continues to make strides in its mission to promote economic growth and prosperity through intra-regional trade and integration. As part of this effort, CCH is advancing its flagship Digital Retail Payments Platform (DRPP) – a key initiative designed to ease barriers to cross-border…
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𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶, 𝗨𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗭𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮 𝗪𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟤02𝟦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗔 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀

The COMESA Media Awards is an annual event conducted by the COMESA Secretariat to promote regional integration activities being implemented by the organisation through multimedia publicity. The award aims to promote reporting on COMESA regional integration activities by recognizing journalists whose works contribute to the integration agenda. The Winners awarded during the 24th Summit are…
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Kenya’s Deputy President Urges Fast-Tracking Digital Integration and Value Addition for Africa’s Economic Transformation

Nairobi, Kenya – Tuesday October 7, 2025: Kenya’s Deputy President, Professor Kithure Kindiki, has called on regional leaders and the private sector to accelerate digital integration, value addition, and innovation-driven trade to strengthen competitiveness and inclusive growth across the COMESA region. Speaking at the official opening of the 18th COMESA Business Forum in Nairobi, the…
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COMESA–EU Horticulture Connect Paves Way for Stronger Africa–Europe Agribusiness Partnerships

Nairobi, Kenya – Monday, October 6, 2025: The inaugural COMESA–EU Horticulture Connect Meeting, a landmark engagement bringing together European buyers, regional SMEs, and agribusiness leaders to unlock new trade, investment, and partnership opportunities across Eastern and Southern Africa’s horticulture sector was held in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday 6 October 2025. Hosted at the Kenyatta International…
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ASCENT Week Held in Lusaka to Catalyze Regional Energy Transformation

Lusaka, Zambia – September 22, 2025 — The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), in partnership with the World Bank, convened the inaugural ASCENT Week 2025, a landmark regional event taking place in Lusaka from September 22 to 26, 2025 at Ciela Resort. The week-long gathering has convened over 400 high-level stakeholders to…
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Powering Regional Integration: Zambia-Tanzania-Kenya Power Interconnector Relaunched

The Zambia-Tanzania-Kenya (ZTK) Power Interconnector Project has officially been relaunched in Lusaka by the three participating governments, with strong backing from the World Bank, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Aimed at linking the East African Power Pool (EAPP) with the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), the ZTK project will create one of Africa’s…
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DRC Signs Interministerial Decree to Implement the COMESA Simplified Trade Regime

Noting the need to facilitate and enhance small-scale cross-border trade, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed an Interministerial Decree on 10 March 2025 to enable the implementation of the COMESA Simplified Trade Regime (STR) on its borders with neighbouring COMESA countries. The DRC shares borders with four COMESA countries Burundi, Rwanda,…
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Towards an Effective and Efficient COMESA Secretariat

Members of the Programme Steering Committee for the European Union funded Institutional Capacity Building Programme (ICBP) at COMESA Secretariat and EU Delegation in Zambia met in Lusaka to review progress in implementation of the Programme. Funded under the 11th European Development Fund, the initiative continues to be a cornerstone in COMESA’s efforts to strengthen institutional…
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COMESA-AU Deploy Pre-Election Assessment Mission to Malawi

Malawi is scheduled to hold general elections on 16 September 2025 to elect a President, Members to the National Assembly and representatives Ward Councils to serve for a five-year period. The 2025 elections come after the previous elections in 2019 that were initially nullified by the Supreme Court. The Court besides the nullification of elections…
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