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Mugabe to attend SADC, Great Lakes summit in SA
04 Nov 2013 at 09:58hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe, has left for South Africa where he will join other SADC heads of state and those representing the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.
The summit will bring together the SADC leaders and those from countries that comprise the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, namely Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Drc, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan , South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and co-opted members. These include Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Civil wars, failed states, and refugee disasters have for many years scarred the African Great Lakes region and are hampering its social and economic development, while conflicts are impacting negatively across national borders hence the formation of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region grouping, under the Pact on Stability, Security and Development in December 2006, bringing together 11 states.
A secretariat was established for the organisation in Bujumbura, Burundi in 2007. The agenda of the pact is to transform the region into a space of sustainable peace, and security, stability and development.
SADC has also joined the effort to bring peace to the DRC by setting up a 4000-strong force which has been empowered to engage forces that are trying to destabilise the situation in eastern DRC.
Its mandate is in sharp contrast to that of the United Nations forces in the Congo who can shoot only if attacked. About 17 thousand UN peacekeepers were criticised last year after M23 rebels overran the city of Goma.
The SADC standby force is in line with the Agreement on Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region, signed by all countries in the region, and SADC.
The SADC Brigade headquarters is in the DRC and is funded by the UN. SADC and Great Lakes countries subscribed to the UN proposal to adopt economic, humanitarian, political and diplomatic measures to help settle the DRC crisis during the 20th AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The meeting, to be held at the OR Tambo International Conference Centre, takes place in the backdrop of the resurgence of RENAMO rebels in Mozambique, where the Alfonso Dhlakama-led group has unilaterally decided to nullify the Rome Peace Accord which ended the long civil war in Mozambique in 1992.
The summit will bring together the SADC leaders and those from countries that comprise the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, namely Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Drc, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan , South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and co-opted members. These include Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Civil wars, failed states, and refugee disasters have for many years scarred the African Great Lakes region and are hampering its social and economic development, while conflicts are impacting negatively across national borders hence the formation of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region grouping, under the Pact on Stability, Security and Development in December 2006, bringing together 11 states.
A secretariat was established for the organisation in Bujumbura, Burundi in 2007. The agenda of the pact is to transform the region into a space of sustainable peace, and security, stability and development.
Its mandate is in sharp contrast to that of the United Nations forces in the Congo who can shoot only if attacked. About 17 thousand UN peacekeepers were criticised last year after M23 rebels overran the city of Goma.
The SADC standby force is in line with the Agreement on Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region, signed by all countries in the region, and SADC.
The SADC Brigade headquarters is in the DRC and is funded by the UN. SADC and Great Lakes countries subscribed to the UN proposal to adopt economic, humanitarian, political and diplomatic measures to help settle the DRC crisis during the 20th AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The meeting, to be held at the OR Tambo International Conference Centre, takes place in the backdrop of the resurgence of RENAMO rebels in Mozambique, where the Alfonso Dhlakama-led group has unilaterally decided to nullify the Rome Peace Accord which ended the long civil war in Mozambique in 1992.
Source - zbc
