Trade disputes between Comesa countries and overlapping membership spell double trouble
A worker seals cooking oil at the Bidco oil plant in Thika. File Photo
Zambia has now requested the Secretariat of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to intervene to urgently resolve longstanding disputes with Kenya over the latter’s exports of cooking oils to the country. Lusaka lodged the request during the recently-concluded meeting of the Comesa Council of Ministers.
Specifically, Zambia has asked that an independent verification committee of experts be sent to Nairobi to address its concerns over Kenya’s exports of palm-oil based cooking fat to Zambia.
