The Republic of Malawi signed the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) compact on 19 April 2010, joining five other COMESA countries that have signed between the year 2007 and 2010. Those that have signed are: Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Swaziland and Uganda.

COMESA Secretary General Mr Sindiso Ngwenya, on Monday 19th April 2009, announced that within the context of CAADP, the COMESA Secretariat in partnership with FANRPAN is designing a Regional CAADP Compact, adding that the Draft Regional Compact is expected to be presented to the COMESA Ministers of Agriculture in Swaziland, next month.

European Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht met Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) representatives, including Zambia’s Trade Minister and ESA Chair Felix Mutati and Malawi’s Trade Minister Eunice Kazembe on 14 April 2010, in Brussels, Belgium.

COMESA's investment promotion arm, the Regional Investment Agency (RIA) promoted 150 projects among them 6 regional ventures at the just ended 3rd COMESA Investment Forum held in Sham El Sheikh, Egypt.

The African Trade Insurance on 13 April, 2010 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Export Credit Guarantee Company of Egypt (ECGE) which will see the two institutions work together to facilitate more domestic and Foreign Direct Investment and exports into Africa.

The Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) has concluded putting together the recommendations of regional stakeholders on harmonised biotechnology/bio-safety policies and guidelines for the COMESA region.

COMESA in collaboration with African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU/IBAR) organized a Regional Training of Trainers Workshop for the 8 Member States with whom COMESA is implementing the PAN-SPSO project.

The recent commitment by the African Development Bank to provide further funding to the COMESA Capacity Building programme in Public Procurement Administration is welcomed particularly at a critical time when the region is battling to fill a major capacity gap created in the main by the ongoing decentralization drive of procurement systems in the Member States.

The COMESA Secretariat has lost its Procurement Expert Ms Rose Masese who was killed in a carjacking incident in Nairobi, Kenya. Ms Masese died in the early hours of 10th April 2010.