Africa deal: "it will result in jobs being created" (COMESA) African leaders signed Wednesday a 26-nation free trade pact to create a common market that would span half the continent from Cairo to Cape Town. The deal will integrate three existing trade blocs -- the East African Community, the Southern African Development Community and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). For the COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya, it will "result in jobs being created." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES