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Backgrounder: The Southern African Development Community

KINSHASA, Spet. 6 (Xinhua) -- The 29th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit will open in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday. The following is the profile of SADC.

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 are: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, ...

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