Latest COMESA region news

• How Africa Is Building a $3 Trillion Free-Trade Future

  15 May 2018

  While the U.S. and China are trying to outdo each other with import tariffs and the U.K. wants to break away from the European Union, African leaders are working on a free-trade agreement that will cover a whole continent. 

• Telecom Egypt board approves US$90 million MENA Cable investment

  15 May 2018

  Telecom Egypt (TE) has secured permission from its board of directors for an investment of US$90 million towards its acquisition of Middle East and North Africa Submarine Cable (MENA Cable) system, a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding S.A.E, two months after it revealed that it wished to channel part of the 2017 dividend into the project.