Lusaka, May 9, 2020: COMESA countries will this week participate in a three-day virtual training on the implementation of the Paris Agreement. This initiative is part of capacity building support to Parties and a joint effort between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the COMESA Secretariat. The training will focus on the…
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More than twelve trade agreements which have been operational in the Common Market for several years have been banned for being anti-competition. The action was taken by the COMESA Competition Commission (CCC) after assessing the agreements in place up to 2019. The banned Agreements were found to have the potential to bar potential competition in…
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Lusaka, Thursday, May 7, 2020: COMESA Secretariat Staff presented assorted sanitation and protective materials worth $20,000 last week towards supporting efforts of the government of Zambia in its response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Funds to procure the items were raised by the COMESA Secretariat staff as a Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. They included 15,000 facial masks,…
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COMESA institutions have joined the efforts towards supporting the governments in their host countries in the fight against the Coronavirus. Among those that have so far contributed to this cause are the Federation of National Associations of Women in Business in Eastern and Southern Africa (FEMCOM), the COMESA Competition Commission (CCC) and the Trade and…
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Youth expected to suffer the brunt of unemployment owing to COVID-19 The implementation of the Joint COMESA-African Union Project, which was meant to contribute to youth empowerment and participation in promoting accountable governance in the region and the African continent has been delayed. This is due to the spread of the Coronavirus and will mainly…
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Lusaka, April 22, 2020:COMESA has handed over the stewardship of the Tripartite group of regional economic communities (RECs) to the Southern Africa Development Community with effect from 22 April 2020. The Tripartite brings together three RECs, including the East African Community into a cooperative framework on the implementation of the Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement…
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Heads of the three regional economic communities, COMESA, EAC and SADC have issued a joint statement of solidarity with their Member/Partner States in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. In the statement issued during the 31st meeting of the Tripartite Task Force conducted through video conferencing, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, the three re-affirmed solidarity with…
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The Master of Regional Integration is a 2-year fully online professional postgraduate programme offered by the University of Mauritius (UoM) in collaboration with COMESA. The programme is 100% course work and is designed on an online platform. It is opened to students around the world, across different continents and across both COMESA and non-COMESA countries.…
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Lusaka, April 18, 2020: Following the successful development and global launch of the 50 Million African Women Speak Platform (50MAWSP) in November 2019, everything was looking up for this first-of its-kind intervention to empower women in the COMESA region and the wider African continent. National launches were supposed to follow. Statewide marketing campaigns had been mooted.…
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Lusaka, Friday, April 17, 2020: Malawi is set to benefit from the enhanced market access for its products through a new COMESA led programme known as the Prioritizing Sanitary and Phyto Sanitary Investments for Market Access (P-IMA). The programme is funded by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) of the World Trade Organization and…
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