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Article: Backgrounder: Brief introduction to Southern African Development Community
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- September 26, 2002
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Backgrounder: Brief introduction to Southern African Development
Community
LUANDA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Southern African Development
Community (SADC) will hold its 2002 annual summit meeting here from
Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
The summit is set for accelerating the process of regional
integration in a bid to speed up development and improve its ability
to deal with crisis in the southern African region.
Following is a sketch of the SADC, which was established in
August 1992 in Windhoek, Namibia, to replace the Southern African
Development Coordination Conference (SADCC).
Make-up: currently 14 member states including Angola, Botswana,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ...