SADC to hold an Inter-Ministerial Task Force Meeting of SADC Ministers of Trade, Transport and Security matters on the Resolution of the Challenges at the Kasumbalesa Border Post

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold an Inter-Ministerial Task Force Meeting of SADC Ministers of Trade, Transport and Security matters on the Resolution of the Challenges at the Kasumbalesa Border Post from 07-09 May 2024 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The meeting is being held as a result of the 43rd SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, held on the 17 August 2023 in Luanda, Angola, which directed the SADC Secretariat to constitute an Inter-Ministerial Task Force to find a lasting solution to the perennial problems encountered by traders, both commercial and small-scale cross border traders, transporters, drivers and border control agencies on both sides at the Kasumbalesa border post, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Zambia.