Southern Africa: SADC Poverty Conference Runs Into Snags
source: allAfrica
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
20 April 2008
Posted to the web 20 April 2008
Port Louis, Mauritius
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Consultative Conference on development and poverty, under way in the Mauritian capital of Port Louis, ran into snags on Saturday afternoon, with a four hour delay in producing the expected final communique and press briefing.
This conference is at ministerial level, and precedes the gathering of SADC heads of state and government scheduled for Sunday.
Explaining the delay to reporters, the SADC Executive Secretary, Tomas Salomao, claimed it was due to the change in format of this year’s consultative conference. At the last such conference, held in Windhoek in 2006, there were just two groups present – SADC governments, and foreign donors (now referred to as “international cooperating partners”).
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