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Gibson Nyikadzino
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will convene an inter-ministerial task force meeting on Friday to address challenges at the Kasumbalesa Border Post between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia.
The virtual meeting will be attended by the bloc’s ministers responsible for Trade, Transport, Infrastructure and Security.
Zimbabwe’s Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona will chair the meeting.
In a statement, the SADC secretariat said: “The meeting will focus on reviewing current challenges at the Kasumbalesa Border Post and deliberate on a corridor-wide action plan for infrastructure development, transport and trade facilitation to resolve the existing issues effectively.”
The border post has faced persistent issues, including congestion, trade facilitation-related constraints, infrastructure challenges, and rising security concerns.
According to the SADC secretariat, Kasumbalesa serves as a convergence point for several regional trade corridors, including the North-South Corridors, the Central Development Corridor (Dar es Salaam), the Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Corridor, the Beira Development Corridor, and the Lobito Development Corridor.
These corridors impact 10 SADC Member States, that is Angola, Botswana, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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