Cairo – Mubasher: Egyptian exports to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa’s (COMESA) members rose to $1.6 billion in 2017.

Egypt’s imports from COMESA’s countries totalled $608 million last year, trade minister Amr Nassar said in a statement on Thursday.

The nineteen members of COMESA have more than 300 million people with a gross domestic product of over $600 billion, he highlighted.

This came on the sidelines of the minister’s participation in the Comesa summit 2018 held in the Zambian capital Lusaka.