SADC announces the end of its military mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Southern African heads of state met on March 13 for an extraordinary summit via videoconference. Preparations for SAMIDC’s disengagement had already begun late last week, according to a source consulted by Jeune Afrique. The end of SAMIDRC signals the failure of this mission but should be welcomed with relief in South Africa, which provided the largest contingent with approximately 2,900 troops. South Africa also paid the heaviest price for this mission: 14 of the SAMIDRC soldiers killed in the Battle of Goma were South African (out of 18).
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The decisions of this meeting, chaired by Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and head of the SADC Council of Heads of State, indicate that the mission was informed of the problems in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and also considered the report of the military mission in that country (a mission known as SAMIDRC) on the outcomes of the meeting of the Ministry of Security and Politics, known as TROIKA, which convened on March 6 under the leadership of the SADC Chairperson. In Tanzania, Ms. Samia Suluhu Hassan is the leader of this group.
In these decisions of this meeting, SADC also states that “the Assembly sympathizes with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of South Africa, Malawi, and Tanzania, as well as with the families of the soldiers who lost their lives during the SAMIDRC mission, and wishes a speedy recovery to the wounded.“
In the decisions of this extraordinary meeting of SADC Heads of State, Article 10 stipulates that “The Assembly suspended the mandate of SAMIRDC and immediately began the process of transferring SAMIRDC troops from the DRC.” The assembly also stated that the SADC organization is committed to ending the conflict in the Congo and will continue to assist the country in protecting its sovereignty and security.
Three countries of the Southern African Community (SADC) that have sent troops to the DRC are South Africa, Tanzania, and Malawi.
This suspension of the SADC forces mission was already expected since the summit of heads of state of SADC and the EAC, of which DR Congo is a member, which concluded that the right way to find a solution to the problems in the east of the DRC is dialogue.
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