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Tanzania
Insecurity prompts Zanzibar to review its lucrative island leasing

The Tanzanian central government is planning to boost its security presence in the Zanzibar archipelago and in recent months has struck security cooperation deals with India and Mozambique. [...]

Published on 06/10/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi (C) at the inauguration ceremony at Amaani Stadium in Amaani, Zanzibar, 2 November 2020.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) shaking hands with the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi (R) during the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 42nd Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Kinshasa, DRC, 17 August 2022.

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Diplomatic cat and mouse from New York to Paris over Rwanda's alleged support for M23 rebels

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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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Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Tanzania
Insecurity prompts Zanzibar to review its lucrative island leasing

Kenya, Tanzania
Tanzania and Kenya race to host Bahamas first high commission in Africa

Tanzania
Zanzibar national unity government increasingly disunited

Spotlight | DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa
Pretoria's thwarted plans for the DRC

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MONUSCO seeks to boost military arsenal to contend with M23

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