Zim to host Sadc Heads of State and Govt Summit in...

Zim to host Sadc Heads of State and Govt Summit in 2024

**Acting Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Amon Murwira right, with Angolan Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Agostinho Tavares da Silva Neto recently**

Philemon Jambaya

Zimbabwe will host the Southern African Development Community Summit in August 2024, Acting Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, who is also the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation Science and Technology Development, Honourable Professor Amon Murwira, has announced.

The Minister briefed Cabinet on the preparations for the summit on Wednesday.

He said that Zimbabwe, as the incoming Chair of the regional organisation, was ready to host the summit in Harare at the new Parliament Building in Mt Hampden.

“The nation is being informed that Zimbabwe, as the incoming Chair of the regional organisation, will host the Summit in Harare, at the New Parliament Building in Mt Hampden, in August 2024,” he said.

Murwira said that 10 sub-committees at senior officials’ level, each with a lead ministry, had been set up to coordinate the thematic areas under their purview.

The nation will be kept abreast of developments on the matter, he added.

The Sadc Summit is an annual meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the 16 member states of the regional bloc. It is the highest decision-making body of the bloc.

The summit is usually held in the country that is taking over the bloc’s chairmanship. Zimbabwe will assume the chair of the Sadc in 2024.

The hosting of the Sadc Summit is a major opportunity for Zimbabwe to showcase its culture and economy to the rest of the region. It is also a chance for the country to strengthen its ties with its Sadc neighbours.