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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Italian and Japanese Ambassadors to Zambia have been accredited as Special Representatives of their respective countries to COMESA. H.E. Dr. Enrico De Agostini (Italy) and H.E. Takeuchi Kazuyuki presented their letters of credence to the Secretary General, Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe at a brief ceremony conducted at the COMESA Secretariat in Lusaka on Tuesday 28 February 2023. The Secretary General called for high commitment…
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More than 40 officials from different government institutions in Zambia have been trained to produce and use timely data for effective policy making. This is in addition to building their capacity in gender statistics terminologies and methodologies, thereby strengthening their knowledge of different gender policies at the global and regional level. The training was conducted…
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COMESA invites individuals and groups to submit innovation concepts. The concepts will be evaluated and the top two in each category invited to present their innovations/concepts at the Tenth COMESA Annual Research Forum scheduled for September 2023. The annual Research Forum is attended by government officers, academia, policy think tanks, development partners and the private…
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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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Capacity building of stakeholders who will play a key role in the implementation of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) has begun. The initial focus is on the Rules of Origin, which represent the most important cross-border trade instrument in economic integration agenda. The TFTA brings together the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa…
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Complex and stringent rules of origin can prevent businesses from taking advantage of trade preferences, according to a new study by UNCTAD and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) secretariat. Rules of origin are the “passport” for goods, determining whether they can be exempted from taxes or taxed less under a preferential…
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Lusaka, Wednesday, 8 February 2023: The COMESA Regional Third-Party Motor Vehicle Insurance (Yellow Card) Scheme has launched a Digital Yellow Card Mobile Application designed to provide access to real-time information to Yellow Card motorists, Law enforcement Agencies and other stakeholders. The Application, which is accessible on Google Play Store and Apple iStore, will allow law…
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