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Article: Sovereignty and the Southern African Development Community
- Article from:
- Chicago Journal of International Law
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright University of Chicago Law School Summer 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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I. INTRODUCTION
In late August 2003, members of the fourteen-nation Southern African Development Community ("SADC") convened in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for the group's annual summit.1 The two-day conference opened with a standing ovation in honor of embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who faces massive poverty, inflation, unemployment, and political opposition in his own country, as well as widespread condemnation from the West.2 SADC leaders urged Western nations to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe while declining to address Mugabe's numerous human rights abuses.3 Recognizing that the US and the EU have refused to fund projects in which Zimbabwe is involved, Tanzanian Foreign Minister ...