Tuesday, January 26, 2021: Libya has renewed its commitment to COMESA and resolved to actively participate in the implementation of regional integration programmes. To kickstart this process, COMESA Secretariat hosted a two-day virtual sensitization workshop on 25-26 January 2021 which was attended by stakeholders from diverse public and private sectors in Libya. Libya’s Minister of…
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In this Issue; Africa CDC, COMESA to Collaborate on Promoting Safe Trade Yellow Card has Settled Over $1m Insurance Claims COVID-19 Worsening Debt in Countries Need to Reboot the CADDP Commitments for Food Security COMESA Develops Key Policies for Livestock and Fisheries Countries Urged to Adopt Climate Change Resilience Framework Download eCOMESA Newsletter Issue No.…
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Lusaka, Monday, December 7, 2020: Discussions between the Africa Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) and COMESA are on course to establish useful collaborations on healthy trade during and post Covid-19. The envisaged partnership will include provision of technical support on public health to trade facilitation initiatives to protect lives and livelihoods. The initiative…
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Download: Measures in COMESA MS in Response to COVID 19 edition No. 32
The COMESA Motor Vehicle Insurance Scheme paid out over $1.1 million in compensation claims to road accident victims caused by visiting and foreign motorists to the region for the period July 2019 to June 2020. According to a status report presented to the recent COMESA Council of Ministers meeting, 967 claims were reported to the…
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Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa which includes the COMESA region need to prioritize medium term policies such as structural transformation and economic diversification of individual economies, reforms in revenue mobilization and increase trade integration to deal with the worsening debt situation caused partly by the COVID-19 Pandemic. According to a special report authored by Senior…
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Majority of COMESA Member States are not on track towards achieving the goals and aspirations of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP). This has prompted the COMESA Council of Ministers to urge Member States to further integrate the Malabo Commitments into their National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans (NAAIPs) and allocate more resources…
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COMESA has developed three key policies to help the growth of the livestock and fisheries sector once Member States adopt them. The policies were developed with the full involvement of the Member States, the Secretariat, international institutions, other regional organisations and cooperating partners. These are: COMESA Livestock Policy Framework, Manual for the Harmonized Grading and…
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COMESA countries have been urged to adopt the Regional Climate Change Resilience Framework and use it as a guide to develop their own national resilience frameworks. In addition, they should endorse the regional body, COMESA, as their delivery partner to have a harmonised regional approach. This was one of the decisions of the recent Council…
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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020, five COMESA Member States: Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Kenya and Libya have notably recorded the highest number of cases. In the initial stages after the outbreak the pandemic, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia experienced high surge in cases. This however slowed after they put in place preventive…
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