Lusaka, November 23, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic constituted a key discussion point in the just concluded COMESA policy organs meetings, owing to its predominant negative impacts on regional integration and more so on the movement of goods and services. As he opened the 41st Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee, Monday 23rd November, Zambia’s Minister of…
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The COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General have adopted the COMESA Board of External Auditors (COBEA) instruments which will now govern its operations as external auditors for COMESA. The COBEA legal instruments include the Rules of Procedure, the Standard Operating Procedures, the Quality Assurance Manual and the Financial Auditing manual. COBEA is made up…
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COMESA Secretariat has prepared a scaled-down budget for 2021 to leverage on information technology in carrying out its activities. The decision was informed by the performance of this year’s budget, which recorded significant savings under meetings, workshops and conferences, which constitutes a significant percentage of the expenditure. The adoption of virtual meetings was occasioned by…
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The annual inflation rate for the month of September 2020 increased to 81.9% up from 23.4% recorded in the same month last year. This means that prices of goods and services in the participating Member States went up.. According to the latest Harmonized Consumer Price Index (HCPI) which measures inflation rate in the COMESA region,…
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Justice Salohy Norotiana Rakotondrajery Randrianarisoa has been elected Judge of the Appellate Division of the COMESA Court of Justice. The election took place during the 23rd meeting of COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorney’s General on 18 November 2020. Justice Randrianarisoa, a Senior Judge and Director General of Judicial Affairs, Research and Reforms at the…
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The Tunisian Export Promotion Center – CEPEX in partnership with GIZ, in the context of the German Development cooperation with Tunisia, organized an online business-matching event dubbed “Tunisia Africa E-Business Meetings on 18th-19th and 20th of November 2020. The event brought together more than 600 Tunisian exporting companies and partners from Sub-Saharan African countries to…
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Cairo, November 18, 2020: Egypt became the seventh COMESA Member State to launch the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MAWSP) platform at a colourful event held in Cairo on Wednesday 18 November 2020. The national launch of the platform was presided over by the Deputy Executive Director of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development…
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Chisamba, Zambia, Monday 16 November 2020: Over ten civil society and private sector organizations in Zambia participated in a two-day national consultation workshop on 16-17 November to enhance their role in the COMESA Peace and Security programme as the country prepares to hold general elections in 2021. COMESA in collaboration with the Economic, Social and…
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Cairo, Egypt 9th November 2020: The COMESA Regional Investment Agency (RIA) has embarked on building the capacities of National Investment Promotion Agencies (NIPAs) in Member States to support investments rebound from the effects of COVID-19. The capacity building activities are being implemented through webinars focusing on best practices in developing and presenting investment opportunities to…
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Despite the many challenges being faced in the textile and garment sector in Zambia, differently abled persons in Ndola District in the Copperbelt Province have found their livelihoods in production of garments. This has been made possible through a capacity building programme supported under the COMESA Regional Integration Support Mechanism (RISM). Gellophina Skills Academy for…
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