East African Countries Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Peace and security dynamics in East Africa Geopolitically, East Africa is part of at least two interlinked regional security complexes: the Horn of Africa and the African Great Lakes complex. This fact sheet will consider influences of […]
Learn MoreThe training targets the national youth councils from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti and youth led organisation from the Horn of Africa Region. The training has been organised by Comesa in partnership with Save the Children and Horn of Africa Youth Network. Some of the challenges identified include: 1. Illiteracy 2. Language barrier 3. […]
Learn MoreThe African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC) will in December 2022 hold the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) elections to constitute its fourth Permanent General Assembly (PGA). The decision was confirmed at a joint ECOSOCC Credentials Committee and African Union Commission (AUC) Interdepartmental meeting from 21 to 23 March 2022 in Zambia. The meeting […]
Learn MoreCOMESA Secretariat working with the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Regional Economic Communities have conducted a four-day training of trainers’ workshop for 12 countries on conflict prevention and peace building in the continent. The workshop was conducted on 7 – 10 December in Nairobi, Kenya and focused on the […]
Learn MoreA joint meeting of ministers responsible for youth and foreign affairs have called for the engagement of young people in shaping the peace and security agenda on the continent starting at the national and regional level before being escalated on to the wider scale. They were speaking at the just ended high-level ministerial conference on […]
Learn MoreCOMESA is mourning the demise of Ms Hope Kivengere, a Member of the COMESA Committee of Elders, who passed away on 19 October 2021 in her home country Uganda. Ms Kivengere was appointed to the Committee of Elders in April 2015 where she also served as the Deputy Chairperson. In the course of service to […]
Learn MoreCOMESA has deployed a 40-member election observer mission in Zambia for the August 12 General Elections. The observers drawn from 10 Member States were flagged off on Sunday, August 8, 2021, by the Secretary General, Chileshe Kapwepwe at the COMESA Secretariat in Lusaka. The Mission includes observers from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Kenya, […]
Learn MoreCOMESA in partnership with the African Union, Economic Social and Cultural Council, (ECOSOCC) and the Save the Children International, have launched an online information-sharing platform to facilitate civil society organisations in the region to play a bigger role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
Learn MoreLivingstone, Zambia, Friday, May 21, 2021: COMESA in partnership with the African Union, Economic Social and Cultural Council, (ECOSOCC) and the Save the Children International, have launched an online information sharing platform to facilitate civil society organisations in the region to play a bigger role in conflict prevention and peace building. The platform https://gps.comesa.int was […]
Learn MoreLivingstone, Zambia, Monday, 17 May 20121: Kenya is set to become the second country in COMESA, after Zambia to undergo structural vulnerability and resilience assessment as part of capacity building to prevent occurrence of conflicts. In preparation, a Kenyan delegation comprising members of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) and the Parliamentary Committee on National […]
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