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Farirai Machivenyika
Senior Reporter
The Sadc Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation meeting opened this morning, amid calls for the region to maintain their support for the DRC to achieve peace in the eastern part of the country.
Troika chairperson and Tanzania President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan said in a speech read on her behalf by Zanzibar President Ali Hussein Mwinyi at the meeting held at the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, that peace should be restored in the DRC.
The meeting is being held to assess the security situation in eastern DRC, which has caused massive internal displacement and suffering.
“We should come together as Sadc and should not hesitate to help DRC to restore peace because without doing so, peace and security in the eastern DRC won’t be sustainable.”
Sadc deployed its mission to DRC on December 15 last year and its year-long mandate will end next month.
The Extraordinary Summit is expected to decide on the fate of the mission.
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