News | SADC
| OECD says African Economic Growth Will be Cut by Half | |
VOA News - May 11, 2009 | |
 | Four African countries, the Seychelles, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Chad, are expected to see their growth rates decline. South African growth is also expected to drop to 1.1 percent, dragging down other economies in the region. The Central African Republic will be hardest affected by the crisis, with only 0.2 percent growth expected. |
| SADC standby forces ready to intervene in DR Congo, Madagascar | |
XINHUA - February 23, 2009 | |
| The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Standby Brigade is ready to intervene in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and Madagascar in order to restore peace and stability in the two countries, Angola's official news agency ANGOP reported on Monday. |
| SADC sends fact-finding mission in DR Congo amid post-conflict lull | |
XINHUA - November 24, 2008 | |
 | Military officials of southern African countries have been in the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) on a fact-finding mission since Friday amid a lull after the recent conflict between the government army and Tutsi rebels. |
| SADC emergency summit strives to solve issues in Zimbabwe, DR Congo | |
XINHUA - November 10, 2008 | |
 | SADC should immediately provide assistance to the armed forces of the DRC, said Tomaz Salomao, head of the regional bloc. The SADC would not stand by and witness incessant and destructive acts of violence by any armed groups against innocent people of DRC, if and when necessary, SADC will, within the Nairobi framework, send peacekeeping force into Kivu Province of the DRC, he added. |
| Zambia's president dies in France | |
BBC News - August 19, 2008 | |
 | Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa has died in a Paris hospital after suffering a stroke in June. He was 59. Vice-President Rupiah Banda, who is expected to take over as acting leader, made the announcement on state TV. |
| 28th SADC summit concludes with launch of FTA | |
XINHUA - August 18, 2008 | |
| The 28th summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) concluded here Sunday with the launch of the Free Trade Area (FTA). The review of the political situation in the region and the launch of FTA dominated the agenda of the two-day summit. |
| Amid Gloom, South Africa's Mbeki Hopeful Of Zimbabwe Breakthrough | |
VOA News - August 13, 2008 | |
| South African President Thabo Mbeki said Wednesday he remains hopeful a power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe's long-ruling ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change can be reached soon despite indications the talks are virtually deadlocked, but developments on the ground in the country threatened the crisis resolution process. |
| New US Military Command For Africa Stirs Intense Emotion | |
VOA News - October 22, 2007 | |
 | When President George W. Bush announced plans for a US military command for Africa - AFRICOM - in February, there was an uproar on the continent, and the controversy has yet to die down. |
| Southern African Leaders Face Worsening Zimbabwe Crisis | |
VOA News - August 17, 2007 | |
Leaders of the Southern African Development Community were converging in Lusaka, Zambia, on Wednesday for a summit of regional heads of state to begin Thursday and which SADC and other sources said will focus substantially on the Zimbabwe crisis. | |
| Security Council underlines need for national reconciliation in DR Congo | |
UN News Service - April 3, 2007 | |
 | Calling for a shared commitment from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) authorities and political parties to national reconciliation, the Security Council today deplored the recent wave of deadly violence in the African country's capital and urged all sides to resolve their difference through dialogue. |
