The Coca-Cola system generated $3.6bn in value-added economic activity across the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) in 2024, according to a study presented in Harare. The system and its value chain supported more than 458,200 direct and indirect jobs across agriculture, manufacturing, retail, transport and services. The research, carried out by the […]
Malawi’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr George Chaponda, is leading the country’s delegation to the 21st Meeting of COMESA Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Harare, Zimbabwe. The meeting, taking place at Zimbabwe’s New Parliament Building, has brought together foreign affairs ministers from member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern […]
Malawi is already benefiting from the programmes of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Committee on Statistical Matters (CCSM), the National Statistics Office (NSO) has said. NSO Commissioner Shelton Kanyanda said the country was the first to produce a food security analysis report jointly with Comesa and Statistics Norway. “We are the […]
Malawi is among the top five countries in Africa to benefit from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) digital financial inclusion plan. The regional bloc, Comesa is implementing a digital financial inclusion plan aimed at promoting trade within the region and includes marginalised communities, which are excluded in terms of financial inclusion. […]
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Competition Commission has provided $5 000 in support of Malawi government’s efforts to fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. George Lipimile, chief executive officer of the COMESA Competition Commission, said the donation will help ease the country’s budget needs for the Covid-19 pandemic response. Minister of Industry […]
Malawi is expected to host the first ever Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) youth conference as one way of promoting innovation and sharing of ideas amongst the youth in the region. This was revealed at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Thursday when President Prof Arthur Peter Mutharika held an audience with the […]
The 10 traditional leaders in President Peter Mutharika’s entourage to the 20th Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) summit in Lusaka, Zambia, this week, was in itself not a bad thing. But not for what Information Minister Nicholus Dausi touts—that their inclusion in the entourage was meant to foster regional integration and coexistence. […]
President Peter Mutharika on Thursday arrived from the high-level Comesa summit but private media journalists were not allowed to ask questions as they were geared to grill him on what civil society organisations (CSOs) are demanding that Mutharika, his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Pioneer Investments (PI) Limited should refund to government money they allegedly […]
President Peter Mutharika has called upon leaders under the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries to invest in the youths. The President made the call in Lusaka in his key note address entitled the next COMESA and the next generation on Wednesday during heads of state and government summit which took place at Mulungushi […]
Malawi is doing everything possible to become a dependable partner and team player in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region, as the member countries make progress economically, said President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday in Lusaka, Zambia. He was speaking during the 20th session of the COMESA Heads of State and Government […]
President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday made his inaugural speech at the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) meeting of heads of state and governments where he said Malawi has continued to play a critical role in the promotion of peace in the region. Mutharika, who celebrated his 78th birthday on the same day, said Malawi […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika got a pleasant surprise at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Heads of State and Government Summit when the Secretariat announced the President’s birthday and presented him with flowers. The COMESA delegates instinctively stood in ovation, applauding the Malawi President with hand-clapping. Twenty-one African countries were present. Mutharika’s […]
President Peter Mutharika has rescheduled his flight to Lusaka, Zambia to Wednesday morning after the commercial plane he wanted to board had delayed. The Malawi leader was supposed to leave at 3pm on Tuesday to attend the 20th COMESA Summit. However, operators of the plane he was supposed to travel in communicated that the plane […]
Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Henry Mussa says the opening up to free trade areas for member states of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) will boost the growth of Malawi’s economy. Mussa said this on Monday in Blantyre at Ryalls Protea Hotel where he opened a day long sensitization workshop for […]
Malawi Mobile Limited (MML), a private company that sought to establish a mobile phone network, will get another day in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) court to prove their K98 billion compensation claim. MML filed an appeal against an earlier judgement of Comesa Court that dismissed its claim against the Malawi Government and Malawi Communications […]
Malawi Mobile Limited (MML), a private company that sought to establish a mobile phone network, has filed an appeal against an earlier judgement of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Court that dismissed its K98 billion compensation claim. MML, through private practice lawyer David Kanyenda, argues that the appointment of the court’s […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has saved Malawi government from paying K97 billion damages Malawi Mobile Limited (MML), the country’s third cellular phone service provider licenced in April 2002, demanded in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Afrcan (Comesa) court as compensation for loss of revenue for unlawful cancelling of contract. According to court documents seen […]
The Malawi government has appealed the ruling of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Court of Justice First Instance Division that found that the COMESA Court has the jurisdiction to hear the case between the Malawi Mobile Limited (MML) , the government and nd Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra). Attorney General (AG) […]