Tag: COMESA

COMESA report highlights key achievements and main challenges to regional integration

June 18, 2023

COMESA, or the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, has recorded a significant increase in trade both globally and within the region above the ... Read More

AU’s Flagship ‘Single African Air Transport Market’ project to boost tourism & trade — COMESA

June 11, 2023

Africa needs to establish a unified market for air transport to boost tourism and trade in the continent, according to a senior official of the ... Read More

Egypt, Angola ink two cooperation deals covering several areas

June 8, 2023

Egypt and Angola signed Wednesday two Memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in fields of security and groundwater on the sideline of the visit of ... Read More

Kenya Airways, South African Airways joint venture faces regulatory headwinds

February 21, 2023

The partnership between Kenya Airways and South African Airways, which want to form a pan-African airline, will be treated as a merger on the back ... Read More

US-Zambia inaugural business summit to boost trade, investment

October 15, 2022

Zambia is hosting a two-day business summit in Lusaka this week to try to attract American investors to the country, in effort to diversify the ... Read More

COMESA: AfDB approves $300m to boost trade and economic development

July 25, 2019

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved about $300 million to finance trade and economic development in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ... Read More

Fifteen COMESA countries establish road development funds

June 20, 2019

Fifteen out of 21 countries in the Common market for Eastern and Southern Africa, (COMESA) have established dedicated Road Funds and Road Development Agencies to ... Read More

Tunisia Joins Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa

July 19, 2018

Tunisia has officially been admitted as the 20th member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Tunisia applied for the membership of ... Read More

UN Sees Impending Demise of Maghreb Union

October 7, 2017

Eight months after the landmark speech of King Mohammed VI at the African Union Summit in which he deplored that the "flame of the Arab ... Read More

Tunisia Launches Charm Offensive to Join ECOWAS as Maghreb Union Crumbles

August 29, 2017

In the face of the paralysis crippling the Maghreb union, Tunisia is following the example of Morocco by repositioning itself on the African continent. Tunisia's ... Read More