Southern African News Features

New energy pact to boost supply in SADC

by Patson Phiri - SANF 06 No 20 Southern African countries have taken a decisive step to avert a looming energy shortfall by signing a...

Southern Africa has solutions to food insecurity

by Patson Phiri - SANF 06 No 19 Southern Africa has developed solutions to address food insecurity but is moving too slowly on implementation, according...

Infrastructure master plan on the cards for southern Africa

 SANF 06 No 18 The southern African region is drawing up an infrastructure development master plan to revamp inter-state transport and communications networks. The master plan...

Consolidation of peace remains a challenge

by Patson Phiri - SANF 06 No 17 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is putting in place mechanisms to assist some member states to...

SADC pushes for affirmative action to accelerate gender equality

by Patson Phiri  - SANF 06 No 16 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is pressing for affirmative action to speed up progress towards substantive...

SADC identifies priority intervention areas

by Patson Phiri  - SANF 06 No 15 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has identified 12 main intervention areas that will drive the region’s...

Infrastructure, food security and cooperation to top SADC meeting

by Patson Phiri - SANF 06 No 14 Infrastructure development, food security and approval of budgets for the region’s priority development projects are expected to...

30 years after Soweto, Mbeki pledges to accelerate change

SANF 06 No 13 South African President Thabo Mbeki invoked several historical markers to illustrate the country’s advances in his recent State of the Nation...

Africa declares Second Decade of Education

 by Patson Phiri - SANF 06 No 12 Africa has declared the next 10 years as the Second Decade of Education and has launched an...

Building hope through music

by Bayano Valy - SANF 06 No 11 For 12 hours on 28 January, Machava Stadium on the outskirts of Maputo became the unofficial capital...

Infrastructure key to Africa’s success: WEF

 by Joseph Ngwawi - SANF 06 No 10 The world’s top business and civil society leaders say the solution to Africa’s quest to embark on...

Political parties brace for DRC polls

by Juakali Kambale - SANF 06 No 9 At least five candidates have registered to contest the presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...