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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ( COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981. Nine of the member states formed a free trade area in 2000 ( Djibouti ...
Chileshe Kapwepwe. Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe, is a Zambian accountant and corporate executive, who serves as the Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), effective 18 July 2018. She was elected at the 20th Heads of State COMESA summit in Lusaka, Zambia's capital city. [1]
2008. The African Free Trade Zone ( AFTZ) is a free trade zone announced at the EAC-SADC-COMESA Summit on 22 October 2008 by the heads of Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC). The African Free Trade Zone is also referred to as the African ...
The African Trade and Investment Development Insurance ( ATIDI) is an investment, trade and political risk-mitigation institution on the African continent intended to provide insurance against political and commercial risks in order to attract foreign direct investment to the region. ATIDI was founded in 2001 by seven COMESA countries, with ...
Mukwandi was born in Lusaka Zambia to Walusiku and Theresa Kamutumwa. She attended primary at a trust school on the Copperbelt, Lusaka and Roma girls, and graduated with Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics at the University of Zambia. Her father was a Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance and also served as COMESA director of ...
Prega Ramsamy. Prega Ramsamy (born 5 May 1950) served as the second Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community. [1] He is from Mauritius and has lived in Zambia, Botswana, Madagascar and South Africa. Ramsamy joined FinMark Trust in 2012 as CEO. Ramsamy was the head of the trade division at the COMESA Secretariat in ...
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a free trade area encompassing most of Africa. It was established in 2018 by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, which has 43 parties and another 11 signatories, making it the largest free-trade area by number of member states, after the World Trade Organization, and the largest in population and geographic size, spanning 1.3 ...
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, SADC joined with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and the East African Community to form the African Free Trade Zone, including all members of each of the organizations. The leaders of the three trading blocs agreed to create a single free trade zone, the African Free Trade Zone, consisting of 26 ...