The first COMESA Climate Change Programme Steering Committee (PSC) meeting for the Global Environment Facility – funded Capacity Building Initiative for enhanced Transparency (COMESA-CBIT) Project took place, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 on the margins of the Africa Climate Summit and Africa Climate Week in Nairobi, Kenya. The project is supporting four COMESA Member States; Eritrea,…
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Trade flow along the Zambia – Tanzania corridor is set for better times once a Euros 2.638 million project to upgrade the Tunduma border post is completed. The project which is being implemented through a sub delegation agreement between COMESA and the government of Tanzania kicked off on 15 August 2023 when the site was…
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COMESA and the European Union have today handed over ICT equipment and metal detectors valued at Euro 120,000 to the Zambia government to be used by the country’s Road Transport and Safety Agency and the Police Service. The equipment which includes metal detectors and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices is part of the implementation…
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INTRODUCTION Following the invitation by the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe to observe the 23 August 2023 Harmonised elections, the African Union (AU) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) deployed a Short-Term Election Observation Mission from 16 to 29 August 2023. The Mission comprises of eighty-two (82) short-term observers (STOs)…
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The first report on labour migration statistics in the COMESA region has been launched. The launch was conducted at the Joint Meeting of Ministers responsible for immigration and labour held in Livingstone, Zambia, Friday 18 August 2023. The report covers data for the decade 2010 to 2019 which was collected under the AU– ILO–IOM–UNECA Joint…
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The Faculty of Law and Management at the University of Mauritius and the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, at Stellenbosch University are pleased to bring to academics, researchers, policy makers and students the first joint Emerging Countries international conference on Business, Finance and Economics to be held in Mauritius on 5-7 December 2023. This…
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Harare, August 20,2023: Once again, the African Union and COMESA have launched a joint Elections Observer Mission (EOM) to the 23 August 2023 harmonized elections in Zimbabwe. The arrival of the Mission was announced on Sunday, 20 August 2023.This is the second joint AU-COMESA EOM with the first being in Kenya in 2022. The mission…
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Ministers responsible for immigration and labour matters in COMESA have renewed their countries commitment to the implementation of the regional protocols on free movement as critical step towards unlocking the benefits associated with having free movement of factors of production in the region. In their meeting conducted on 18 August 2023, Livingstone, Zambia the…
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The year on year, inflation rate (annual percentage change) in the COMESA region as measured by the Harmonized Consumer Price Index (HCPI-COMESA) stood at 27.9% for the month of June 2023, down from 35.4% registered in May 2023. A year earlier, the rate was 142.9%. Further, the month-on-month inflation rate in the COMESA region as…
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The 12th Meeting of the COMESA Ministers Responsible for Gender and Women’s Affairs was held Thursday 3 August 2023 as the region took stock of the progress it has made in advancing gender equality, empowerment of women and girls, as well as social and cultural development. The meeting, which was being held for the first…
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