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ZAMBIA KUCHALO💪 Youth are the present and the future! In commemoration of the Zambia 🇿🇲 Youth Day, on 1st April 2025, COMESA held a Youth Talk Youth Day at 📍 COMESA Secretariat, bringing together over 65 youth from diff backgrounds to acquaint them with COMESA’s scope of work

49th ESAAMLG Senior Task Force Officials Meeting held from 28 Mar – 4 April 2025 in Kampala 🇺🇬 ends on a high note with key deliverables: ☑️ conclusion of 2nd Round of Mutual Evaluations ☑️ revised FATF Rec 8 ☑️ advanced progress in the establishment of an ESAAMLG Regional AML/

Gearing up for Malawi’s General Elections! 🗳️ From 31 Mar - 5 Apr, COMESA and the African Union, with support from the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy (EISA) & International IDEA, deployed a Pre-election and Needs Assessment Mission PAM/NAM to 📍Lilongwe, Malawi 🇲🇼

Led by H.E Geoffrey ONYEAMA, Nigeria 🇳🇬 former Minister of Foreign Affairs, the PAM/NAM held consultations with key electoral stakeholders, including: ✔️Political parties ✔️State institutions ✔️Int. organisations ✔️NGOs/CSOs Among these were the Malawi Electoral Commission,

Richard Atwaru COMESA Secretariat highlighted vote matching as a best practice from the 2024 elections at the Inception AU-RECs’ Reflection Meeting on Electoral Processes in Africa, happening now. #AU-RECsonElection.African Union Ecowas - Cedeao The Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC countries ECONEC RESAO IGAD Secretariat

“Security is a prerequisite of development. The rule of law must be respected and human rights observed. In achieving this, regional bodies such as COMESA are needed. Preventing and countering violent extremism requires a whole society approach and needs us to be alert at all

“We are gathered in the spirit of collaboration and commitment to making strides towards achieving security. Extremist ideologies can infiltrate society so empowering communities through knowledge and skills is important to countering radicalisation.” - Moyale City Administration

“We are one people so we should devise our own strategies to solve our own problems. COMESA is willing to support in ensuring the region is secure and economically prosperous - for effective trade can not happen in Moyale without peace.” - Oita Etyang, HGPS COMESA NCTC Kenya

“Eliminating social exclusion factors, integrating youth and women, and minimalizing vulnerabilities are essential in bridging the awareness gap and preventing and countering violent extremism and terrorism.” - Moyale County Commissioner Rep, Kenya 🇰🇪 side NCTC Kenya

Getting to the heart of the matter 👉🏾 A session introducing the regional, multilateral and local approaches to preventing and countering violent extremism. What are the root causes of VE? 🤔 Mary Yvonne

Day 2 of the P/CVE training debutes with a threat assessment of VE and terrorism from a Kenyan Perspective. This is delivered by one of the NCTC Kenya experts.

Youth, Peace and Security in P/CVE Young people are driving change at the front lines of peace and prevention.Linking the YPS agenda which is an intergenerational process with efforts on PVE means stronger policies, safer communities and youth-led solutions that work. Search for Common Ground - Europe,

We’ve officially kicked off the Mediation of Natural Resource-Based Conflicts workshop in Baringo, Kenya in collaboration with Horn of Africa Youth Network The discussions highlight how environmental challenges, such as resource scarcity and changing weather patterns, directly contribute to

The discussions provided an introduction to the COMESA Handbook for Mediation on Natural Resource Conflicts. Participants explored mediation frameworks and tools designed to help resolve disputes over land, water, and other vital resources. These tools are essential for fostering

COMESA is pleased to seal a landmark partnership with #UNHCR UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency to address displacement crisis in Africa, impacting over 54 million individuals where Southern Africa hosts 22% of the continent's displaced population. This MoU creates a framework to ensure that both

COMESA GPS is pleased to participate in the High-Level seminar on 25 years of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda; from policy to practice currently taking place in Durban, South Africa 🇿🇦. The Seminar seeks to critically examine how policy frameworks ranging from national to