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“The Africa We Want” Zimbabwe and the SADC Chairship: The Role of RECs in Times of Instability. The Zimbabwean and Kenyan Experiences. - 11 July 2024
Watch here: https://youtu.be/g7q9b8pb0dQ In August 2024 Zimbabwe will be hosting the SADC summit and taking over the chairship of SADC. Almost one hundred people have been arrested in the last few weeks, in a clampdown on civic and …
Policy Brief on: Multi-stakeholder Workshop on Regional Peace and Security
On 26 November 2018, the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) together with the Norwegian Embassy hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop entitled ‘Regional Peace and Security Issues’. The Minister of Small and Medium Business Development and …
“REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY ISSUES” JHB multi-stakeholder workshop
On 26 November 2018, the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) together with the Norwegian Embassy hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop entitled ‘Regional Peace and Security Issues’. The Minister of Small and Medium Business Development and …
Lesotho: End culture of impunity to reverse recent spike in human rights violations
Amnesty International’s Human Rights Agenda for the New Lesotho Authorities: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr33/6468/2017/en/ AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 14 June 2017 Lesotho: End****culture of impunity to reverse recent …
South Africa – Zimbabwe Dialogue: Informal Economy and Cross Border Trade, 17 January 2017
Despite its significance within SADC and growing evidence of its contribution to poverty alleviation and food security, informal cross border trade (ICBT), is yet to occupy its rightful place in regional policy making. Discussions on …
Movie: Migration and Development - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
International experts shed light on the migration-development nexus, for example with regard to migration flows in and from the Middle East and South Africa. They highlight the diversity of reasons for people to leave their homes as well as …
BRAIN DRAIN IMPOVERISHES AFRICA, SAYS COMMITTEE
Parliament, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 – The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation says it is time Africa highlighted in policy formulation the challenge posed by the brain drain, which continues to impoverish the …
President Jacob Zuma - Remarks to SA-France Business Forum
The Presidency, in Paris, France, 11 July 2016 President Jacob Zuma On the Occasion of the State Visit to France: Remarks to the SA-France Business Forum *MinistersThe President of MEDEFLeadership of Business Unity South Africa and the …
EU signs Economic Partnership Agreement with Southern African countries
The European Union and six countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) today signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the first of its kind between the EU and an African region pursuing economic integration. The …
President Jacob Zuma to visit Lesotho
The Presidency, Pretoria, Media Statement, 7 June 2016 His Excellency President Jacob Zuma will travel to Lesotho on 9 June 2016 to consult on matters relating to the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The consultations are a follow up …
Op-Ed: An African identity we all aspire to
SADC BIG Campaign Coordinator Nkateko Chauke explores how we can achieve pan-Africanist ideals through the introduction of a universal cash transfer, predominantly funded through extractive industries, in an op-ed published by Daily …
Dialogue Online No. 13/2015: "China-Africa FOCAC Summit: how China can help African countries advance peace in the 2030 Agenda" By Richard Smith (Southern African Liaison Office (SALO), Showers Mawowa (SALO and University of Pretoria), Anna Moller-Loswick (Saferworld) and Thomas Wheeler (Saferworld)
The sixth meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation provides an opportunity to deepen partnership, address collective challenges, and enable African countries to make significant progress towards the peace-related targets in the 2030 …
MOZAMBIQUE REPEALS COLONIAL PROVISIONS THAT THREATENED THE LIBERTY OF ITS LGBTI CITIZENS - By Howard Smith 21st July 2015
Mozambique’s new Penal Code, which came into effect in June this year after being approved by the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, last year, is a welcome step forward towards a country free from discrimination that the …
SALO Exhibition on Africa Day, at the Pan-African Parliament
On Monday, 25 May the Pan African Parliament (PAP) hosted an Africa Day celebration under the theme “2015 The Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”. The event was chaired by Advocate Madasa and Dr …
Dialogue Online - No. 5/2015: "A Critique of the Current Regional Approach to Human Security within the Context of Informality and a Pervasive Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) Sector" By Tamara Naidoo and Showers Mawowa
The Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s human security infrastructure embraces the notions of freedom from want and fear as represented in the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report (1994) . However …
Dialogue Online - No. 4/2015: "Peace and Security in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Progress and Prospects?" By Showers Mawowa
Though the connection between peace and development is commonly acknowledged, the inclusion of peace and security in the emerging post-2015 development framework has been one of most contested propositions. The consensus around 17 …
“An African driven Post-2015 Development Agenda – opportunities for peace and human security”
Presentation at the ASC - 20th August 2014 at the University of Johannesburg, By Showers Mawowa, SALO Download presentation below:
Official announcement of presidential elections results - Malawi
Official results of Malawi elections where Peter Mutharika was declared winner. Final presidential results statement Presidential - National Results - Malawi
COMMON AFRICAN POSITION (CAP) ON THE POST- 2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
** “Preamble: We, Heads of State and Government of the African Union assembled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the 22nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union on 31 January 2014, NOTE: The participatory approach that led to the …
