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COMESA is one of the pillars of the African Economic Community. In 2008, COMESA agreed to an expanded free-trade zone including members of two other African trade blocs, the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). COMESA is also considering a common visa scheme to boost tourism. [5]
The SADC is the largest of the AFTZ member trade blocks and covers a population of some 248 million people and a zone whose cumulative GDP is $379bn in 2006. COMESA was established in 1994 as a replacement for the Preferential Trade Area. It includes 20 nations, with a combined GDP of US$286.7bn in 2006.
العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) भोजपुरी; Буряад
State (57) [1] GNI [2] Currency [3] UN [4] AU [5] Interregional South African West African Central African East African North African CEN-SAD COMESA CEPGL SADC SACU ECOWAS UEMOA
The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 56 sovereign states, referred to as Commonwealth countries. [1] Most of them were British colonies or dependencies of those colonies . No government in the Commonwealth exercises power over the others, as is the case in a political union .
The 29 tripartite member/partner countries represent 53% of the African Union's membership, more than 60% of continental GDP ($1.88 trillion), and a combined population of 800 million. [ 2 ] Negotiations between the three trade blocs first began in June 2011. [ 1 ]
Kenya is the only member state to not have any standing debt while all other member states have significant arrears of some kind; As of November 2024, the DRC owes US$20 million, Burundi US$17 million, South Sudan US$15.6 million, Somalia US$7 million, Rwanda $5.2 million and Uganda US$3.4 million. [88]
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...