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Africa's largest trading bloc, The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - COMESA - enters its final and closing day this morning, after having launched a Customs Union to facilitate trade and free movement of people within the 19 member regional bloc.
The launch of the COMESA Customs Union will see member states that join the union adopting an agreed common external tariff (CET) to be charged to third parties.
Its new chairman, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, hinted strongly at ambitions for monetary union and a common currency.
Zimbabwean journalist Brian Hungwe spoke to the newly appointed COMESA Executive Secretary Dr Sindiso Ngwenya at the gathering in Victoria Falls, and began by asking him to explain what prompted this move to create a Customs Union.
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