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Harare SADC Summit Sees Highest Presidential Turnout In A Decade

7 months agoTue, 20 Aug 2024 08:35:24 GMT
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Harare SADC Summit Sees Highest Presidential Turnout In A Decade

Despite controversies, including the jailing of opposition activists and pressure to relocate the 44th Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government from Harare, Zimbabwe achieved a significant milestone by recording the highest level of presidential attendance in the past decade at the regional event on Saturday, August 17.

According to The Herald, out of 16 SADC Member States, only three Heads of State did not attend the 44th Summit – Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, Comoros’ President Azali Assoumani and Mauritius’ Prithvirajsing Roopun.

Hichilema chaired the Troika Summit of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Affairs on Friday via video link from Lusaka.

Six Heads of State were absent from the Summit held in Botswana in 2015, and five did not attend the following year’s gathering in the Kingdom of Eswatini. In 2017, as many as seven leaders were missing from the summit in South Africa.

In 2018, six leaders skipped the Summit in Namibia, while four were absent from the 2019 Summit in Tanzania. The 2020 gathering in Mozambique saw four leaders missing, a number that increased to six for the 2021 Summit in Malawi.

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In 2022, five Presidents did not attend the Summit in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and four skipped the event in Angola last year. 

As reported by News24, the least-attended summit occurred in South Africa in 2017, where only nine out of 16 heads of state and government were present.

In the lead-up to the Summit, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were embroiled in a trade dispute over imports, prompting Lusaka to close its borders.

Surprisingly, SADC removed the political and security situation in Eswatini from the agenda of the Troika Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security Cooperation.

SADC leaders acknowledged “positive progress regarding the political and security situation in the Kingdom of Eswatini,” as presented by King Mswati III.

King Mswati III expressed his disinterest in the discussions surrounding his kingdom as early as January 2023 when he sent Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini to represent him at the SADC extraordinary summit in Windhoek, Namibia—following the killing of human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko.

To date, no one has been arrested for the crime, which civil society attributes to the Eswatini government.

The Summit also commended the DRC, Eswatini, Madagascar, South Africa, and Zimbabwe for successfully conducting peaceful elections.

This comes despite the SADC Election Observer Mission’s conclusion that the general elections held in Zimbabwe on August 23, 2023, did not meet regional standards for democratic elections.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assumed the role of SADC chairman in this annual, rotational position, succeeding Angola’s President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço.

Next year, Mnangagwa is set to hand over the chairmanship to Madagascar’s Andry Rajoelina.

Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken charge of the Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security Cooperation, succeeding Hichilema.

Meanwhile, Malawi has joined the troika as a new member, while Zambia remains as the outgoing chair.

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22 Comments

🏃‍♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 7 months ago
Maona ka kuti Zimbabwe inoremera nyika dzakawanda. Ed vanogona kugarisana nevamwe zvakanaka
😜 · 7 months ago
Corrupt leaders they where given money by Zanu Pf to attend
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Mmm saka ma road achapedziswa kugadziriswa here since vaenzi vaenda
MEn BelieveED · 7 months ago
Guys lets campaign for Ed to continue as Sadc Chairman till 2030,
Anonymous · 7 months ago
They only meet to discuss and appoint the next head. In Madagascar they will appoint the next one.
dee~tales · 7 months ago
Magetsi akazosara oitasei zviya🤔
Lil NC · 7 months ago
oyenda
HiLLBiLLIES VOLkSWAGEN 0774857233 · 7 months ago
MALAWI IS A NEW MEMBER OF A GROUP ??? SADC ??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN ???
Acx · 7 months ago
Why not coming fully to the summit of personal interest? Honey and milk is being planted here for friends and family to enjoy. Self-promotion support of being a chief corruption leader openly to kill majority and live alone. 'Sadc ' self action destroy your country. So happy are those who got proceeds of hyena goatscheme, mining looting in all. Sadc for dictatorship
worried citizen · 7 months ago
the most useless organ ever to be on earth,full of dictators,one day the the law from the above will catchup with you.
🧐 · 7 months ago
Ndo kurongeka ka uku, at least some tremors have been sent across the world kuti Zimbabwe is never perishable sanctions or not we prevail Ed, and still prevailing
Si**** · 7 months ago
Ukanzi bata president asina kunyatsokwana unobata upi uye nemhaka yei?
Scud · 7 months ago
ED, akavaka ma Luxury villa asina kupera, vanhu vachitambura nehudzvanyiriri
Anonymous · 7 months ago
@Scud hanti vanga vari vaenzi maida kuti varare pai kkkk
𝕸𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖆𝖟𝖆 · 7 months ago
Why waste resources throwing away national resources on a meeting that would have otherwise been handled virtually. The glossing and glorification of this meeting is driven by the desire for validation by an illegitimate presidium
fugu pfeee · 7 months ago
makarwadziwaka, zvamaida zvakakona
Anonymous · 7 months ago
SADC4ED2030.
Rsg · 7 months ago
Let all go and come back again when we will be ready for it, not this past sh... done through cruelty and force
. · 7 months ago
how is this a milestone for the govt of zim?....
CIO · 7 months ago
kkk next year pasara tu mwedzi tushoma kuti gore ripere

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