Wednesday, March 29, 2023: The Council of Ministers of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have adopted legal instruments to implement the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (TFTA) once it enters into force. In its 5th meeting conducted virtually today, the Ministers…
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Tuesday, 28 March 2023: Ministers in charge of trade, customs, finance, economic matters and home/internal affairs from the three regional economic communities (RECs) met virtually today to review progress on the implementation of various activities under the Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement (TFTA). This was the 9th meeting of the ministers who constitute the Tripartite…
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Lusaka, Friday, 24 March 2023: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat, and the Government of Zimbabwe, have today signed a Euro 920,544.28 sub-delegation agreement to construct a cross-border market at Chirundu border post between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Secretary General of COMESA, Ms. Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry…
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Given the increasing impact of climate change-related disasters in the COMESA region and particularly the effect of the recent Cyclone Freddy, which caused unprecedented levels of devastation, we have renewed our resolve to develop and implement programmes that address the effects of climate change, and which enhance the region’s preparedness, says COMESA Secretary General Chileshe…
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Lusaka, Tuesday, 14 March 2023: A decision of the Government of Mauritius to grant a subsidy to the Mauritius State Trading Corporation (STC) has been suspended by the Appellate Division of the COMESA Court of Justice (CCJ). The action has been taken pending the hearing and determination of an appeal that has been filed by…
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COMESA, the East African Community (EAC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the three regional economic communities which are jointly implementing the 50 Million African Women Speak digital platform (50MAWSP), held a high-level partners engagement on Wednesday 8 March to mobilise support for the next phase of the initiative. The meeting took…
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Nairobi, Thursday, 02 March 2023: The Steering Committee of the programme on Enhancement of Governance and Enabling Environment in the ICT sector (EGEE-ICT) in the Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean region (EA-SA-IO) meeting began today in Nairobi, Kenya to review the programme’s performance, since it was launched two years ago. The eight…
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Cape Town, Thursday, February 23, 2023: COMESA and OceanHub Africa (OHA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the development of an ocean-based economy in the COMESA region. It was signed by COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe and Mr. Alexis Grosskopf, Executive Director of OceanHub Africa during the Ocean Innovation Africa summit in…
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Cape Town, Friday, February 24, 2023: ARC – Africa’s public health supply chain institution – and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Cape Town to strengthen public health supply chains by enhancing medicine access in the region. COMESA is a regional economic community of 21…
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Overall, 716 out of 796 (88.9%) of NTBs registered in the online reporting system implemented by the three regional economic communities (RECs), COMESA, East African Community and the Southern Africa Development Community have been resolved. Only 80 NTBs remain unresolved. The main NTBs include restrictive licensing, permitting, and other requirements applied at the border. Barriers…
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