Tag: COMESA
Africa on the runway to seamless airspace
11 Jan 18 NewsThe dream of achieving low airfare in Africa may soon be realised should the African Union’s plans run full course.
The bloc expects to launch its Single African Air Transport M...
Africa’s first digital free trade area for rollout in 2018
08 Jan 18 NewsBusinesses within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) could save up to $450 million in clearance documentation once the bloc adopts blockchain technology for...
Report on the PMAESA Conference – Livingstone, 22-23 November 2017
15 Dec 17 EventThe Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa (PMAESA) held its 2017 Annual Conference in Livingstone, Zambia from 22-23 November 2017. The conference, which was b...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
05 Dec 17 NewsECDPM has, today, launched a series of policy briefs on the Political Economy Dynamics of Regional Organisations in Africa
Launching, on Thursday, in Nairobi: East African Cross-B...
COMESA Business Council hosts it’s 1st Regional Consultative and Business Linkages Forum 2017
04 Dec 17 NewsOn the 6th and 7th December 2017, various agro-industry players from the two transport corridors (North and North South) will gather in Nairobi, Kenya at the Hilton Hotel...
Region in joint efforts to develop cross-border trade
29 Nov 17 NewsRwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo officials have committed to work together in addressing challenges hindering cross-border trade in the region...
EAC hands over COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Task Force Chairmanship to COMESA
20 Nov 17 NewsThe Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko handed over the Chairmanship of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Task Force (TTF) to Mr Sindiso Ndem...
The COMESA Court of Justice clarifies important Jurisdictional Issues
16 Nov 17 DiscussionAfrica’s trade and integration endeavours are anchored in international legal instruments. This suggests that certain practical benefits should follow: Legal certainty about comp...
Zimbabwe re-brands Statutory Instrument (SI) 64
16 Nov 17 DiscussionIn the year 2016, Zimbabwe gazetted Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 (SI 64). The SI 64 required traders to obtain an import licence from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce befor...
Kenya’s sugar imports rise threefold as cane harvests drop to lowest level ever in nine years
09 Nov 17 NewsKenya’s sugar imports increased by more than 300 per cent in the first nine months of this year, at a time the country’s cane production has fallen to its lowest in nine years....
37th COMESA Intergovernmental Committee Meeting opens in Lusaka
01 Nov 17 NewsThe 37th meeting of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Intergovernmental Committee (IC) opened in Lusaka on 30 October 2017.
The IC brings together Permane...
Uganda: 8th Annual Joint Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Sector Review
27 Oct 17 NewsThe Trade sector is one of the key sectors that contribute to the economic development of the country.
Every year sector stakeholders meet at a conference to review the performanc...
Official launch of the Tripartite Transport & Transit Facilitation Programme (TTTFP)
26 Oct 17 NewsThe high ratio of landlocked countries, the long distances to gateway ports, the lack of an integrated and liberalised road transport market in the East and Southern African region...
COMESA Policy Organs meetings begin this week
24 Oct 17 NewsTop ranking government officials led by Ministers from the 19 COMESA Member States will be converging in Lusaka, Zambia in the next two weeks for the annual decision-making meeting...
COMESA adopts revised RCTG Operations Manual
20 Oct 17 NewsThe Council of the Regional Customs Transit Guarantee Scheme (RCTG) has adopted the revised Operations Manual with amendments and decided that it should be circulated to all member...
Tripartite FTA signatures rise to 21 as Mauritius signs
10 Oct 17 NewsMauritius has signed the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement. This brings the total to 21 out of 26 countries that have signed the regional trade framework.
Minis...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
06 Oct 17 NewsApplications are now open for tralac’s e-course: Trade in the 21st Century – legal and policy considerations for Africa. Note the closing date: 11 October 2017
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COMESA region set to abolish roaming charges
06 Oct 17 NewsCitizens in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) may soon enjoy reduced calling charges, courtesy of a decision taken on Wednesday by Ministers in charge of i...
Small-scale cross-border traders call on DRC to enforce better tax regime
06 Oct 17 NewsSmall-scale traders along the Rubavu-Goma border have raised concerns over what they perceive as an ‘illegal tax’ levied on them by DR Congo officials.
Their protest is hinged...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
05 Oct 17 NewsStarting today, in Accra: The WIDER Development Conference on migration and mobility (jointly organized with the African Research Universities Alliance). Downloads: poster presenta...