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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.
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 ]
ECOWAS also serves as a peacekeeping force in the region, with member states occasionally sending joint military forces to intervene in the bloc's member countries at times of political instability and unrest. [12] [13] In 2024, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali announced their withdrawal from the bloc. [14]
Also in 2016, Quizlet launched "Quizlet Live", a real-time online matching game where teams compete to answer all 12 questions correctly without an incorrect answer along the way. [15] In 2017, Quizlet created a premium offering called "Quizlet Go" (later renamed "Quizlet Plus"), with additional features available for paid subscribers.
Added new members Tunisia and Somalia: 16:23, 10 May 2017: 1,000 × 1,000 (188 KB) Ydecreux: Reverted to version as of 02:08, 24 July 2011 (UTC): not a member, only admitted to COMESA RCTG: 23:53, 16 January 2017: 1,000 × 1,000 (188 KB) Nobelium: Reverted and recoloured South Sudan via the CSS-part of the file in the very same green as the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
The Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee (HSGIC) for the project finalized the policy framework and named it the New Partnership for Africa's Development on 23 October 2001. NEPAD is now a program of the African Union (AU) that has replaced the OAU in 2002, though it has its own secretariat based in South Africa to coordinate ...