Tunisia becomes Comesa's 20th member state

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. PHOTO | MADAGASCAR PRESIDENCY

Madagascar’s leader and the acting president of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Hery Rajaonarimampianina has welcomed Tunisia to the regional bloc.

The northern African nation was said to have fully met the admission requirements, and thus officially became the the 20th Comesa member state.