Luanda - The President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, arrived this Friday in Luanda, to take part on Saturday 4 in the Extraordinary Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The vice-president of Namibia and the prime minister of Leshoto are also in the Angolan capital. The three personalities were received by the Angolan minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António.
This extraordinary summit was announced this week by minister Téte António, in the end of a virtual meeting summoned by President João Lourenço in his capacity as Acting Chairman of SADC.
The extraordinary meeting will address all the important issues, taking into account the moment the DRC is going through, namely the instability in the east of that country and the preparation of the elections.
Meanwhile, in the 43rd SADC Summit, President João Lourenço highlighted the focus on resolving the security crisis in the eastern region of DRC as one of the challenges of his regional mandate. He reiterated the search for the best paths for peace, involving co-ordination and concert with other existing mechanisms for the resolution of the conflict.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organisation, created in 1992, dedicated to cooperation and socio-economic integration in the southern African region, as well as cooperation in political and security matters.
SADC is made up of 16 member states, namely, Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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