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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981.
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
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 Holy See is a member of the IAEA, ITU, UPU, and WIPO and a permanent observer of the UN (in the category of "Non-member State") [41] and multiple other UN System organizations. The Vatican City is governed by officials appointed by the Pope , who is the Bishop of the Diocese of Rome and ex officio sovereign of Vatican City.
The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation in East Africa.The EAC's membership consists of eight states: Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania. [5]
The TFTA entered into force on July 25, 2024, after the requirement of 14 countries ratifying the agreement had been met. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The 14 countries that now trade under the TFTA are Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, accounting for 75% of tripartite ...
South Sudan is a member state of the United Nations, [113] the African Union, [25] [114] the East African Community, [115] [116] [117] and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. [118] South Sudan plans to join the Commonwealth of Nations , [ 119 ] the International Monetary Fund , [ 120 ] OPEC+ , and the World Bank . [ 121 ]