COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General conducted their 26th meeting today in Lusaka, Zambia, with the rallying call for domestication of legal instruments that have been developed over the years by the regional bloc to advance the regional integration agenda. Key speakers at the meeting including the Secretary General of COMESA, Chileshe Kapwepwe appealed…
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Kigali, Tuesday, 12 September 2023:Regional infrastructure experts led by Permanent Secretaries from the 21 COMESA Member States have begun meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, today to review progress on the implementation of the ongoing priority projects. The two-day meeting is the 13th of the Joint Technical Committees on Transport and Communications, Information Technology and Energy. Among…
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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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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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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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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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Lilongwe, Thursday, June 22, 2023: A national workshop to sensitize stakeholders in Malawi on the need to subscribe to the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) began today in Lilongwe. The two-day workshop seeks to enlist Malawi to sign up to establish the SAATM leading to the liberalization of its air transport sector. So far…
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 19, 2023: COMESA has kicked-off a series of workshops to create awareness about the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), which provides for the full liberalisation of intra-African air transport services in terms of market access, traffic rights for scheduled and freight air services by eligible airlines thereby improving air services connectivity…
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Lusaka, Friday, June 16, 2023: COMESA handed over equipment worth EUR 227,526 to the Government of Zambia,on Friday 16 June 2023 to be used to facilitate transit trade.The equipment includes testing and diagnostic kits for tradable food products. They will be used by port health offices and other key border agencies that work on Sanitary…
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