In The Hot Seat

September 2007 | Risk Summary

Zambia currently holds the rotating presidency of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). While not normally a particularly arduous task, the situation in neighbouring Zimbabwe is giving President Levy Mwanawasa a few foreign policy headaches. He is known to disapprove of the Mugabe regime in Harare, but until such time that SADC agrees to take concerted action, Mwanawasa is forced to protect Mugabe, such as recently when he demanded that Mugabe be invited to a EU-Africa summit being hosted by Portugal in December. But at least the president has been successful in ensuring that Zambia is not tarred with the

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