Meeting at a Tripartite Summit on 22 October in Kampala, Uganda, leaders of Member States of SADC, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC) agreed on what many have described as an important milestone towards continental integration as envisaged by the African Union (AU).
According to the final communiqué, the historic Tripartite Summit "agreed on a programme of harmonization of trading arrangements amongst the three RECs [Regional Economic Communities], free movement of business persons, joint implementation of inter-regional infrastructure programmes as well as institutional arrangements on the basis of which the three RECs would foster cooperation." [read more]
THE FOURTH president of the Republic of Zambia, Rupiah Banda, is a veteran politician who has been in the public service for more than 50 years.
Born on 19 February 1937, Banda was among a group of young leaders of the United National Independence Party (UNIP) who won Zambia's independence in October 1964, under the leadership of Kenneth Kaunda.
At the age of 27, he became Zambia's first ambassador to Egypt. It was a significant posting as Cairo was an important African capital during the leadership of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was a key supporter of independence struggles in Zambia and the region. [read more]
COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES attending the 20th Session of the African Hydro Symposium held in Zambia have called for African governments to harness its huge hydroenergy potential, as it is cheap and clean.
According to Lawrence
Musaba, the Coordination
Centre Manager for the
Southern African Power
Pool (SAPP), Africa has a
combined feasible hydrocapacity
of more than
1,750,000 gigawatts (GW)
per year, enough to power
the whole continent but
unfortunately, only 4.3
percent of this is being
exploited.
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