COMESA facilitates 180 investment opportunities across 7 strategic sectors on new digital platform, including Egypt: Heba Salama

Nairobi,26 March 2026:
Heba Salama, CEO of the Regional Investment Agency (RIA) of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), affirmed that the launch of the COMESA Investment Map through an interactive digital platform represents a strategic step toward regional integration and facilitating access to investment opportunities across the region.

The initiative reflects the Agency’s vision to strengthen cooperation among member states and investment promotion agencies, with the aim of directly connecting investors to regional opportunities, streamlining decision-making, and encouraging cross-border transactions, She Said.

Speaking during the launch of the COMESA Investment Map on the sidelines of the COMESA Investment Forum 2026, held in Nairobi under the patronage of Kenyan President William Ruto and with the participation of all member states, alongside several regional and international organizations, Heba Salama stated that 180 nationally vetted investment opportunities have been listed on the platform.

These opportunities span seven priority sectors across member countries.
She added that the platform serves as a unified, user-friendly regional gateway that enhances transparency and underscores COMESA’s readiness to attract investment, She Added.

It sends a clear message to global investors that the COMESA region is open for business, committed to sustainable and inclusive growth, and fully prepared to support regional investment in a coordinated and effective manner, Heba Salama Said.

Heba Salama explained that the investment opportunities available on the platform cover the majority of COMESA member states, including Egypt, making it a single interface that provides investors with the data and insights needed to evaluate opportunities and make informed investment decisions.

The platform features opportunities across several strategic sectors, including agriculture, food industries, supply chains, infrastructure, energy, the digital economy, and technological transformation.

Heba Salama further noted that COMESA was established with a clear and ambitious goal of creating investments that generate real opportunities for citizens of member states. With increasing digital interconnectedness, presenting accurate and transparent information to investors has become critically important.

Heba Salama, emphasized that the Investment Map is not merely a project showcase tool, but rather an integral part of COMESA’s broader integration agenda—linking investors with opportunities across all member states, facilitating cross-border transactions, and fostering regional investment partnerships.

The CEO of RIA highlighted that this achievement is the result of close collaboration between the Regional Investment Agency and investment promotion agencies across member states, aimed at developing practical tools that support economic policies and translate commitments into tangible projects on the ground.

COMESA was established in 1994 with the objective of promoting economic integration among its member states through trade liberalization, facilitating the movement of goods and services, and attracting investment. Since then, the organization has worked to build a comprehensive institutional framework to support economic cooperation, including the establishment of a free trade area. Its key strategic objectives include removing tariff and non-tariff barriers, enhancing regional and international investment, developing infrastructure, strengthening economic integration, and improving the competitiveness of African economies.

COMESA’s 21 member states have a combined GDP exceeding $1 trillion, making it one of the largest economic blocs in Africa in terms of size and investment potential. Its membership includes Burundi, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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