Several key actions that could help are not yet on the table, including mobilising other political parties as well as civic society to fight anti-foreigner hysteria.
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Extreme heat is a huge threat to health, work and food security across southern Africa.
Africa’s share of the world’s agriculture exports is low and has deteriorated over time.
Sustained diplomacy is needed to make current peace efforts work more effectively in the DRC.
The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
Mosquitoes are the world’s most dangerous animal. It’s important to know how to avoid malaria.
Lesotho, a constitutional monarchy, has been under domestic, regional and international pressure to change its constitution since 2012.
The Southern African Development Community Parliament will have the delicate job of ensuring good participatory regional governance while protecting national sovereignty.
The SADC mission shows how difficult it is to run a large-scale military intervention, especially if the host government is not taking full ownership and supporting the operation.
The new intervention force must be sizeable, and have proper air cover as well as transport and air elements. None are guaranteed.
Chances of longer term peace are small because of the DRC’s assumption that it can achieve peace through sheer military force.
The international effort to address three decades of violence in eastern DRC has drawn in the UN, east African troops and now a southern African force.
Regularising freer movement of people across African borders is one of the continent’s great developmental challenges.
In parts of Nigeria and Mozambique, the central governments and state institutions are either absent or unable to address the dire socio-economic conditions and related instability.
Countries in southern Africa should start focusing on greater regional interconnectedness and collaboration.
The country has had five governments in 10 years. Every time a government collapses, the reform programme follows suit.
Lesotho has done a good job of curbing the powers of its monarch and making its electoral system inclusive.
African countries are struggling to implement the African Union’s protocol on free movement four years after its ratification.
The maritime situation in Mozambique must not be allowed to emulate the maritime threats found off Nigeria, Somalia, and the rebel-held territories in Libya.
A monarch with absolute powers is just as dangerous as self-serving politicians in a democracy.
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