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| Madagascar’s leader and the acting president of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Hery Rajaonarimampianina signs the documents for the admission of Tunisia as the 20th member of the bloc in Lusaka, Zambia, on July 18, 2018. |
The northern African nation was said to have fully met the admission requirements, and thus officially became the the 20th Comesa member state.
President Rajaonarimampianina and the Tunisian Foreign Affairs minister, Mr Khemaies Jhinaoui, signed the admission documents at the 20th Comesa Summit in Lusaka, Zambia on Wednesday.
“I invite Tunisia to positively contribute to the Comesa’s development, to the tripartite free exchange zone Comesa-EAC-SADC, and the continental free exchange zone under the auspice of the African Union,” stated President Rajaonarimampianina.
The Comesa’s new secretary-general, Ms Chileshe Kapwepwe, took up her role on Wednesday, following the expiry of the term of Mr Sindiso Ngwenya.
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