Tuesday, January 26, 2021: Libya has renewed its commitment to COMESA and resolved to actively participate in the implementation of regional integration programmes. To kickstart this process, COMESA Secretariat hosted a two-day virtual sensitization workshop on 25-26 January 2021 which was attended by stakeholders from diverse public and private sectors in Libya. Libya’s Minister of…
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Measures in COMESA MS in Response to Covid Vol 34
Secretary General (SG) Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe has described the deaths of two Cabinet Ministers that occurred recently in Malawi as devastating to the nation and region as a whole. In a message of condolences addressed to the President of Malawi His Excellency Lazarus Chakwera, the SG regretted that the region has continued to lose lives…
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COMESA Secretariat and the Government of Malawi have signed a 3.54 million Euros agreement that sub-delegates the implementation of coordinated border management activities under the broader Trade Facilitation Programme at Mchinji border post between Zambia and Malawi on the Malawian side. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Malawi, Ms. Christina Zakeyo, and Secretary General,…
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Secretary General Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe appeared before Zambia’s Parliamentary Committee in charge of Budgetary Affairs on Friday 22 January and gave an update on various regional integration activities and levels of implementation. With a specific focus on Zambia, Ms Kapwepwe briefed the law makers on different programmes and projects that COMESA is implementing and its…
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The COMESA Business Council (CBC) in partnership with the Trade and Development Bank (TDB) convened a high level Public-Private Dialogue, under the theme, “Towards the COMESA Digital Integrated Common Payment Policy for Micro Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) on 20th January 2021 in Kigali, Rwanda. The public-private dialogue brought together nine pilot-study countries, Central Bank…
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e-COMESA Newsletter 650
انتشر الفيروس الذى بدأ كوباء محلى بسيط في مدينة ووهان الصينية في شهر ديسمبر 2019، سريعا في أنحاء العالم مهددا بقاء البشرية والتكامل الافتصادى العالمى وسلاسل القيمة للإمدادات وتنقلات البشر بصفة عامة. وتم حتى 12 يناير 2021، تسجيل حوالى 89 مليون حالة إصابة موجبة مؤكدة بجائحة كوفيد-19 في أنحاء العالم ووفاة ما يزيد عن 1.9…
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Le Coronavirus, qui a commencé comme une simple épidémie à Wuhan (Chine) en décembre 2019, s’est rapidement propagé à travers le monde, menaçant l’existence de l’humanité, l’intégration économique mondiale, les chaînes d’approvisionnement et la mobilité humaine en général. Au 12 janvier 2021, près de 89 millions de cas confirmés d’infections à la Covid-19 avaient été…
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تم إطلاق جوائز الكوميسا للابتكار في 2013، وذلك بمناسبة الاحتفال بمرور 50 عاما على تأسيس الاتحاد الأفريقي. ويتمثل الغرض من منح الجوائز في الإعتراف والاحتفال بالأفراد والمؤسسات التى تستخدم العلم والتكنولوجيا والابتكار بهدف تعزيز أجندة التكامل الاقليمى. وتم منح جوائز الابتكار الافتتاحية بنجاح خلال القمة السابعة عشر لرؤساء الدول والحكومات المنعقدة في شهر فبراير 2014،…
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