COMESA in partnership with the African Union Commission and other Regional Economic Communities (RECs) successfully held side events to push Africa’s case at the just ended UN Climate Change Meetings also known as the 25th Conference of Parties (COP) to the Climate Change Convention. The first meeting to be held was a technical side event…
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The Steering Committee of the 50 Million African Women Speak Project has given the initiative a stamp of approval for the progress registered so far. This followed the Steering Committee’s latest meeting held in Mwanza, United Republic of Tanzania from 5-6 December. The Committee is comprised of executive staff from the project implementing regional economic…
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The COMESA Secretariat will be closed for two weeks from Friday 20 December 2019 to 5th January 2020. Official business will resume on Monday 6th January when most staff members are expected to report back for work. This was announced in a Statement by the Director of Human Resources & Administration Mrs Martha Elimu. “We…
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A capacity strengthening residential Boot Camp for youth leaders in policy formulation and implementation on democratic governance and socio-economic development was held from 14 – 18 December 2019 in Arusha, Tanzania. The Boot Camp was organized by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat through its Joint COMESA – African Governance Architecture…
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Lusaka, Friday 13 December 2019: The 24th Meeting of the COMESA Committee of Central Bank Governors and their representatives met in Lusaka on Friday and discussed ways of enhancing implementation of the COMESA Monetary Integration Agenda. They have agreed that the success of several regional programmes including the Free Trade Area (FTA), the Tripartite Free…
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The number of seed varieties listed on the COMESA Variety Catalogue has increased to sixty-nine after seeds from two more companies namely Western Seed and Seed-Co were listed through the Uganda National Variety List. This has been made possible by the COMESA Seed Harmonisation Implementation Plan (COMSHIP). COMSHIP, a COMESA Seed Programme working in close…
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COMESA Secretariat working with the Implementation unit of the Great Lakes Trade Facilitation Project (GLTFP) have started rolling out the communications strategy meant to enhance visibility of the project in the beneficiary countries. The project is part of the wider World Bank Great Lakes Imitative (GLI) which reflects the commitment of the World Bank to…
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The BootCamp will be a multidisciplinary engagement, encompassing socio-economic and political participation, representation, and youth voices in governance processes. Gender based inclusion will be a key issue of focus, looking at mitigating hindering factors for gender and participation in socio-economic and political, policy and development processes within the COMESA framework and on basis of country…
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Lusaka, Thursday, 5 December 2019: The PTA Reinsurance Company (ZEP-RE) has launched a US$36 million Business Park in Zambia’s capital Lusaka. This is the largest single investment in real estate for the COMESA institution in the Eastern and Southern African region. The nine floor star-shaped-environmentally-friendly building was officially launched by Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu who…
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