Author: Muzinge Chibomba

COMESA Secretariat held a one-day consultative meeting with Member States and other Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on optimizing returns from intra-Africa trade in Animals and Animal products under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The virtual meeting discussed many issues including reinforcing multi-lateral cooperation for disease prevention and control, integration of informal trade in…
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Activities have begun towards implementation of a €6.8 million project to upgrade the priority cross-border infrastructure and equipment at selected border points between Zambia on one hand and Malawi, Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the other. These are Mwami, Chirundu and Nakonde respectively. The first project implementation workshop was conducted in Zambia on March 21,  2021…
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There is need to shift approaches in border management in the region to focus more on facilitation as opposed to control in order to ease free movement of persons. This will facilitate regional trade and lead to higher levels of integration and economic development. This was expressed at the 11th meeting of the COMESA Chiefs…
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Eighteen out of 21 COMESA Member States have so far nominated focal point persons to be responsible for management of the COMESA Online Trade Portal and coordinate with national stakeholders to compile information needed to update the live platform at the country level. The Platform was approved by the Council of Ministers in May 2020,…
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The Tripartite Sectoral Ministerial Committee for Trade, Customs, Finance, Economic Matters and Home/Internal Affairs has approved guidelines to facilitate the safe mass movement of persons and personal goods across the region while mitigating the spread of COVID-19. The guidelines will subsequently be tabled before the next meeting of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Council of Ministers, planned…
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