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| | COMESA heads of state to meet in Addis Ababa to boost free trade zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | ADDIS ABABA, May 22 (AFP) - A dozen heads of state and government from Africa's largest trading bloc are to hold a summit meeting here later this week, aimed at boosting their free trade area (FTA). |
 | | Its members are Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Uganda, Rwanda, the Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, the Union of the Comoros and Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
 | | Other COMESA member states enjoy preferential trade arrangements with each other and are gradually reducing tariffs on goods produced inside the bloc. |
| www.namibian.com.na /2002/may/africa/02612C09BD.html (508 words) |
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