Southern African Development Community

Zimbabwe opposition leader Tsvangirai in France to consult

Zimbabwe opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who failed to attend his party's crucial National Council to have a postmortem on the outcome of SADC (the Southern African Development Community) Extraordinary Summit on the...

Botswana: Credit Crunch Creams Off P2 Billion From Pension Funds

The Botswana Pensions Society has called on pension fund managers and trustees to use all available communication avenues to educate their members, especially on the impact of the ongoing global financial turmoil on their...

Botswana: Mugabe is Ridiculous - Skelemani

Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister, Phandu Skelemani, has described as "ridiculous and absurd" President Robert Mugabe's allegations that Botswana is training Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) youth to...

'Major failure of leadership'

By Eddie Cross As you all know the SADC summit took place last Sunday with five heads of state attending, and with officials and ministers representing those who could not attend. It ignores the political realities in Zimbabwe,...

South Africa: SADC Health Ministers Mark Malaria Day

Posted to the web 17 November 2008 Gabi Khumalo Jozini Health ministers from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) marked Malaria Day on Friday by spraying houses at Mamfene Village in Northern KwaZulu-Natal with DDT...

Zimbabwe opposition MDC-T okays unity gov't

Zimbabwe's opposition MDC-T national council has resolved that the party joins the envisaged inclusive government once the legislature has given legal force to the broad-based agreement signed on September 15, The Herald...

Zimbabwe - A dressed up Somalia

I had two disturbing experiences this week. I visited the Head Office of the Ministry of Education and then went to the Government Pensions office. I was asking after the pension of a friend who had been retired for two years...

Malaria is Africa's second biggest killer disease

Malaria is the second biggest health problem in Africa after HIV and Aids, and the implementation of interventions aimed at combating and controlling Malaria are far below the required level in some African countries.

Zimbabwe opposition issues Mugabe warning

Movement for Democratic Change refuses to join Zimbabwe unity government Opposition: Mugabe must honor power-sharing resolution agreed in September MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai won most votes in March's presidential election...

Newsweek: Dimming hopes for help in Congo

As conflict in Congo intensifies, the prospect for an international peacekeeping force looks dim. The best bet for stopping the violence, the United Nations' 17,000-strong multilateral peacekeeping force, known as MONUC, is...

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