Dar es Salaam Declaration contains pro-active strategy for regional food security
SADC member states have initiated a pro-active strategy for agricultural development to address food security on a sustainable and regional basis, rather than rely on food aid from outside the region.

SADC region shares South Africa’s victory for 2010
The response from South Africa’s neighbours has been overwhelmingly positive about the direct benefits to the region of the successful bid to host the football World Cup, the largest single-event sporting activity in the world, in 2010.

RISDP conduit through which SADC can achieve NEPAD, MDGs targets
World leaders meeting as the general assembly of the United Nations in September 2000 underscored, through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the multi-dimensional challenge of poverty and agreed on a set of time-bound development targets.

South African elections increase ruling party margin
South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) now holds more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament after clinching 69.7 percent of the votes in the country’s third democratic elections held in April.

Regional integration key in multilateral trade negotiations
While the general objective of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Union (EU) is to foster the smooth and gradual integration of ACP states into the global economy, for SADC, the agreement should see the continuous strengthening of regional integration.

Stronger institutional mechanisms for gender equality needed
SADC has been challenged to strengthen institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women by providing adequate financial and human resources.

Dar-es-salaam Declaration on agriculture and Food security in the SADC Region, 15 May 2004
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Digital divide hampers fight against poverty
Information technology experts have urged SADC countries to narrow the digital divide in the region and place Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) at the centre of programmes to fight poverty and disease.

Malawi election ushers in new faces
The Malawi 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections held on 20 May ushered in some new faces, the main one being the election of economist Bingu wa Mutharika as president, a considerable increase in women representation and the beginning of the end of voting along ethnic lines.

Need to balance ARV treatment with proper nutrition
Southern African countries have been urged to ensure HIV and AIDS interventions incorporate access to treatment, nutrition and gender issues, beyond home-based care and prevention.

Africa’s wildlife conservation strategies impressive, says GEO yearbook
Africa’s wildlife conservation record is impressive despite the continent’s challenges arising from extreme poverty, water stress and scarcity and land degradation.

The first Under-20 Zone Six SADC Games
Although its athletes did poorly for a host country, Mozambique can be content that its organisation of the first under- 20 Zone Six SADC Games met with some relative successes.

Tanzania obtains International Development Association credit
The World Bank has approved an International Development Asssociation (IDA) credit of US$122 million to support the upgrading of strategic roads in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar and improve the operations of Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC).

Zambia to benefit from gateway through Namibia
Namibia’s is set to become a SADC gateway to Europe and the Americas for its landlocked neighbours through the new Sesheke bridge which has generated interest in Zambia.

SADC delegation meets to discuss drug trafficking
A SADC meeting to discuss drugs consumption and trafficking within the region was held in Luanda in May.

Madagascar in bid to join SADC
The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar has applied to join the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

African development strategies
This book reflects on Africa’s previous experiences with alternative paradigms to structural adjustment and explores their implementation in the 21st century. The stated intention is to “learn from the past in order to chart viable new policy directions for the future, including critically assessing the prospects for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) measuring up to the challenges involved.”

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