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Jorge Cardoso gets to grips with SADC's security potential to contend with Cabo Delgado crisis

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