Lusaka, Friday, January 18, 2019: The Chairperson of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has sent a message of condolences and solidarity to the President of the Republic of Kenya His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, Government, families and people of Kenya on the recent terror attacks in Nairobi in which more than 20…
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Lusaka, Tuesday, January 8, 2019: The Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy of Somalia in Lusaka, Mr Ahmed Abdirahman Sheikh Nur has revealed that the his country is looking for areas to invest in within the COMESA region. Mr Ahmed said this in Lusaka when he paid a courtesy call on Secretary General Ms Chileshe Kapwepwe…
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Kampala, Tuesday 18 December, 2018: COMESA in collaboration with the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) and TradeMark East Africa have launched a regional initiative that will help strengthen the management of Standards and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures in the region through a programme called Prioritization of SPS investments for Market Access (P-IMA). P-IMA is a…
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[vc_row][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Nairobi, Friday, December 14, 2018: Only seven out of the 21 States in the Eastern and Southern Africa region have so far harmonized their national seed regulations with the regional seed trade harmonization regulations. They are; Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The harmonization of seed laws under the COMESA Seed Harmonization…
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Cairo, Monday, December 9, 2018: A strong COMESA delegation has arrived in Cairo for the 1st Intra- Africa Trade Fair (IATF) that takes place from Tuesday 11 to 17 December 2018. The fair is organized by the Africa Export and Import Bank (AfreximBank) and the African Union Commission in collaboration with the Government of Egypt. Themed…
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Lusaka, Saturday, December 8, 2018: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) marks the 24th anniversary, since its transformation from the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA) on December 8, 1994. A high-level COMESA delegation led by Secretary General Ms. Chileshe Kapwepwe will mark the anniversary in Egypt while attending…
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The “Valley of Death” is a term commonly used in the innovation ecosystem to refer to the failure of many innovations to make the transition to commercially viable products. Numerous studies have put the carnage of innovations lost in the valley of death at 90%. Only 10% make it to the level of product development…
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Lusaka, Friday, May 18, 2018: COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General have passed new regional legal instruments among them, the COMESA Airspace Agreement and the Agreement on Admission of Somalia to COMESA. The regional airspace Agreement and its enabling regulations aims at achieving a seamless upper airspace for the region which will lead to…
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