COMESA Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/comesa/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 COMESA Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/comesa/ 32 32 Cape to Cairo trade past signed https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/cape-to-cairo-trade-past-signed/ Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/cape-to-cairo-trade-past-signed/ African leaders from three trade blocs have signed a Cape To Cairo free trade deal involving 26 countries and more than 600 million people. The five years of negotiations began in Sandton where on Sunday African presidents will launch an effort to get common market for the whole continent. ends intro Trade Minister Rob Davies […]

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]]> African leaders from three trade blocs have signed a Cape To Cairo free trade deal involving 26 countries and more than 600 million people.
The five years of negotiations began in Sandton where on Sunday African presidents will launch an effort to get common market for the whole continent.
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Trade Minister Rob Davies represented President Jacob Zuma at today’s signing in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh.
It involved the heads of state from COMESA, the East African Community and SADC.
They have inked an accord that will enormously impact African economies that still only account for about two percent of global trade – despite the continents containing some of the fastest growing countries on the planet.
Ratification of the agreement by parliaments of the signatories will take at least two years.

 

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