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4:53 CAT | 01 Feb 2025
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Southern African leaders gave “unwavering” backing Friday to the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the Rwanda-backed M23 group captured the biggest city in its mineral-rich east.
The southern African grouping SADC held crisis talks in Zimbabwe on the escalating conflict in the eastern DR Congo which has raised concerns for regional security.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit “reaffirmed its solidarity and unwavering commitment to continue supporting the DRC in its pursuit of safeguarding its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity,” according to the final statement.
The DRC is one of the 16 member nations of the regional grouping.
The crisis talks were convened after 16 soldiers from South Africa and Malawi, also SADC members, were killed in fighting in recent days around the regional capital of Goma, where they were deployed as part of regional peacekeeping efforts.
The summit said that the objectives of the peacekeeping mission deployed in December 2023 “have not yet been realised,” the statement said.
It called for the immediate dispatch of defence officials from countries with troops in the peacekeeping force to review the troops on site.
Besides South Africa and Malawi, Tanzania also has soldiers in the force.
The statement also backed calls for a joint summit of SADC and the East African Community grouping “to deliberate on the way forward regarding the security situation in the DRC”.
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Extraordinária dos Chefes de Estado e de Governo da Comunidade de Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADC). Uma reunião que reuniu Chefes de Estado e de Governo para avaliar a situação de segurança no leste da República Democrática do Congo… pic.twitter.com/MIuQzNWGZa— Presidente Daniel Chapo (@daniel_chapo24) January 31, 2025
𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘́ 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬
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— SADC Secretariat (@SADC_News) February 1, 2025
Source: AFP
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