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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC) refutes the false and misleading online media articles about its operations in the Eastern DRC. SAMIDRC strongly rejects misinformation and disinformation about its military operations in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and would like to make it clear that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) troops deployed to the DRC are under the mandate of SAMIDRC.

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The SADC Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC) dismisses false and misleading statements about its operations

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At a momentous occasion on 28 March 2024, Lesotho became the eleventh Southern African Development Community (SADC) member state to sign the Intergovernmental Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) amongst SADC Member States to establish the SADC Humanitarian and Emergency Operations Centre (SHOC), reaching the legal threshold of 2/3 Member States, required for the MoA to enter into force.

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Lesotho becomes the Eleventh SADC Member State to Sign the MoA establishing SHOC as Autonomous Entity

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC), in its quest to strengthen efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) in the SADC region, and in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), hosted a Regional Conference on GBV Prevention from 06-07 March 2024, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Conference was held under the theme: Advancing Data and Evidence for Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Region.

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SADC and GIZ Co-hosted a Regional Conference on Advancing Data and Evidence for Gender-Based Violence Prevention and SRHR in Southern Africa

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) convened a workshop in Windhoek, Namibia from 29th February 2024 -1st March 2024 to validate the Draft Coordinated Border Management (CBM) National Strategy.

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SADC boosts support towards Namibia in developing a CBM National Strategy

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) continues to register good progress on implementation of its programmes to deepen regional economic integration, in particular in the area of Trade, Industry, Finance, and Investment (TIFI). This emerged out of the TIFI Thematic Group meeting held on 29 February 2024 at SADC Headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana.

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SADC continues to register good progress in the Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (TIFI) sectors

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H.E Mateus Magala, the Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Mozambique, officially opened the Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-28) in Maputo, Mozambique, on 29 January 2024 which convened to review the impacts of the October-December 2023 rainfall season’s predictions, issue the seasonal rainfall forecast for February-June 2024 and advance the establishment of Regional Sectoral User Interface Products (RSUIPs).

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SADC convenes SARCOF-28 to validate the rainfall forecast of 2023-2024 season and its anticipated impacts

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The SADC Regional Customs to Business Forum is a significant vehicle of the SADC region that seeks to foster trade partnership based on mutual trust and inclusive participation of the private sector in policy formulation and application, implementation of innovative trade facilitation measures and harnessing of collective solutions to the ever-increasing challenges of managing the cross-border supply chain.

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SADC launches the Regional Customs-Business Forum

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H.E Elias M. Magosi, the Executive Secretary (ES) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is currently on official visit to the SADC Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC) to appreciate and oversee the progress of the operations. The Mission was deployed on 15 December 2023 to support the Government of the DRC to restore peace and security in the Eastern DRC.

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Executive Secretary visits the SADC Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC)

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