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Mnangagwa's hawkish Cabo Delgado outburst catches SADC off guard

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa. © Aaron Ufumeli/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP
The Zimbabwean president, frustrated with SADC's position on the Cabo Delgado crisis, caught his fellow leaders off guard when he unilaterally announced that the organisation's military force would intervene in the troubled province. Mnangagwa's statement was in sharp contrast to SADC's usually prudent language. [...]
Published on 15.04.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes
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Inner circles | SADC
Jorge Cardoso gets to grips with SADC's security potential to contend with Cabo Delgado crisis

Of all the directorates of the Southern African Development Community, the one charged with regional political, defence, and security issues is by far the most strategic. Headed by Angola's Jorge Cardoso, it has to humour the changing moods of the organisation's rotating presidents at a time when a SADC military response is increasingly expected in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

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Jorge Cardoso, head of the SADC Organ for Cooperation in Politics, Defense and Security.

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