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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]
The East African Community ( EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of eight countries in East Africa. The member states are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. [5] Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president of South Sudan, is the ...
COMESA was established in 1994 as a replacement for the Preferential Trade Area. It includes 20 nations, with a combined GDP of US$286.7bn in 2006. Among its members are Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda and Sudan. The EAC, the smallest of the member trade blocks in terms of GDP, had a GDP of US$46.6bn in 2006. Member states
As of 2019, Zambia's GDP per capita (current international dollars) stands at $1,305.00. In the area of trade, Zambia recorded a positive trade balance of US$300.6 million in 2014, as well as an increase in non-traditional exports (NTEs) over the years from US$1,381.8million in 2010 to US$3,550.3 million in 2013.
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 ...
It was formed in 1980. Flag of the SADCC. The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) was the forerunner of the socio-economic cooperation leg of today's SADC. The adoption by nine majority-ruled southern African countries of the Lusaka declaration on 1 April 1980 paved the way for the formal establishment of SADCC in April ...
Politics of Zambia. The politics of Zambia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president of Zambia is head of state, head of government and leader of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government, while legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament.