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Article: Backgrounder: Southern African Development Community
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- August 16, 2006
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Backgrounder: Southern African Development Community
MASERU, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Southern African Development
Community(SADC), a major regional bloc in Africa, will begin its
annual summit in Lesotho's capital Maseru on Thursday.
The SADC has been in existence since 1980, when it was formed as a
loose alliance of nine majority-ruled states in Southern Africa known
as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC),
with the main aim of coordinating development projects in order to
lessen economic dependence on the then apartheid South Africa.
The founding member states of the bloc are Angola, Botswana,
Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and ...