West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

The Southern African regional bloc has said it will conclude its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), having decided on a “phased withdrawal”. Leaders from the 16-nation ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

The southern African regional bloc has decided to end its military deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The M23 armed group agreed a deal with SADC on the evacuation of its forces from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The M23 armed group agreed with the Southern African Development Community on the evacuation of SADC forces from eastern ...

The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one of the deadliest — in DR Congo — over fatalities, public opposition and ...

NAIROBI, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Zep-Re, a specialized institution of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa regional bloc, launched a ...

Niger's junta had initially proposed a three-year transition period right after the coup, but that was rejected by West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS, which called it a provocation and ...

Previous peace talks between Rwanda and DRC had been hosted by Angola, but it announced Monday that it was relinquishing its ...

And all except Guinea, have pulled out of Ecowas, the West African regional bloc. Niger's relations with Ecowas broke down when the junta proposed a three-year transition period to democratic rule ...

The East African Community [EAC] and Southern African Development Community [SADC] , together comprising 24 countries, came together in early February for a joint peace push after a Rwanda-backed ...