An estimated 60 million citizens in SADC were food insecure in 2024, representing 17% of the region's population.

This data was revealed by the SADC Executive Secretary, Elias Magosi, who said the situation calls for urgency in agricultural transformation and investments in the sector.

Zimbabwe has handed over the rotational SADC chairpersonship to Madagascar during the 45th SADC summit underway in Antananarivo.

SADC member states such as Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Mauritius all held general elections in 2024, during the chairmanship of Zimbabwe.

Calls for a re-look at trade engagements within the region and beyond dominated the maiden statements of SADC's new leaders.

These are President Duma Boko of Botswana, Mozambican President Daniel Chapo and the Prime Minister, Navinchandra Ramgoolam of Mauritius.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has told fellow SADC leaders that the objectives of the development plans would not be realised when citizens are confronted by hunger, high youth unemployment and other socio-economic challenges.

A sustainable source of funding is crucial to the robust implementation of the activities of the SADC's Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security Cooperation to ensure regional stability.

This and other matters dominated the SADC Organ Troika summit in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

The SADC region needs US$625 billion to be able to implement the priority projects outlined in the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan. 

SADC leaders are set to review progress in the implementation of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan, RISDP 2020-2030, during the 45th upcoming ordinary summit of Heads of State and Government.

The Minister of International Relations and Trade, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, attended the meeting of the Ministerial Committee on the Political, Defence, and Security Cooperation of SADC in Tanzania from the 21st to the 25th of July.

The SADC Senior Officials' Meeting for the 27th Ordinary Meeting of the Ministerial Committee of the Organ (MCO) started in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The chairperson of the Public Service Commission of Namibia, Salmaan Jacobs, has stressed the need for public service commissions across the SADC region to collaborate on shared challenges.