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Blantyre, Malawi, 14 October 2021 (ECA) - The 27th Meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) of Southern Africa elected Malawi as Chair, Mozambique as Vice-Chair and Zimbabwe as Rapporteur to lead the Bureau and promote inclusive industrialization, greater resilience and wealth creation.

Blantyre, Malawi 11 October 2021 – The Twenty-Seventh Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) for Southern Africa on the theme, “Building back better from COVID-19 in Southern Africa: Fostering commodity-based industrialization, manufacturing and regional value-chains”, begins on Wednesday 13th October 2021 with key note addresses by

Fresh trouble brewing for Lesotho’s beer industry MASERU-FOR almost a year, the alcohol industry in Lesotho has been buckling under the massive weight of Covid-19 lockdowns. Thrice in the last 11 months, the government of Lesotho banned the sale of alcohol in a desperate attempt to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. The idea, the government says, was to free up space in hospital wards that would otherwise have been taken up by road accident victims. Noble as that may have sounded at the time, t...

Minister blasts Masoetsa MASERU-THE All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s spokesperson Montoeli Masoetsa has been accused of attending a constituency meeting without an invitation. Finance Minister Thabo Sofonea says Masoetsa insisted on being present at the meeting he had in Thaba Bosiu constituency on Sunday. Sofonea said the meeting was for the constituency members only but he came uninvited after claiming that he had permission from the leadership to attend. He said only later did he realise tha...

Lesotho Flour Mills contract terminated MASERU-THE government will not renew Seaboard Overseas’s management contract to manage the Lesotho Flour Mills. Seaboard has held the management contract, due to end this December, since it bought 50 percent of the milling company 20 years ago. The government has held the other 50 percent but left the operations to the American company in an agreement that was meant to improve the company’s performance. Yet for the past two decades Lesotho Flour Mills...