Sadc Council of Ministers meet

Farirai Machivenyika

Senior Reporter

The Sadc Extraordinary Summit being held at the new Parliament Building in Mt Hampden is in its second day this Monday with a meeting of the Council of Ministers to consider recommendations made by the Ministerial Committee of the Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation on Sunday.

The Extraordinary Summit was convened to discuss, mainly, the security situation in eastern DRC and the region in general.

The DRC has been plagued by conflict, especially in its eastern regions, resulting in the displacement of over 6,4 million people and the death of thousands.

The MCO comprises of Tanzania (outgoing chair), Malawi (incoming chair) and Zambia, while the

Council is made up of made up of all Foreign Affairs Ministers of Member States.
Sadc deployed its mission to DRC on December 15 last year on a one-year mandate as a regional response to address the security situation in that country and restore peace, security and stability to pave the way for sustainable development.