African Heads of State and Government pose for a photo during the Comesa summit in Lusaka, Zambia, on July 18, 2018. The annual summit which was to be held later this year has been cancelled. FILE PHOTO | NMG
The annual summit for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa scheduled to take place in Khartoum, Sudan, which was to be held later this year has been cancelled. This is the second time in three years, that the annual summit has been cancelled.
The Lusaka-based secretariat has now confirmed that Comesa will hold its next summit in Egypt in the second half of 2020.