President Emmerson Mnangagwa has this Thursday morning left the country for an Extraordinary Double Troika SADC Summit in Maputo, Mozambique.
The summit brings together the SADC Troika and the Troika of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation and will discuss the insecurity in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.
The SADC Troika is presently chaired by Mozambique, with Malawi as incoming chair and Tanzania as outgoing chair.
The troika of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation has Botswana as current chair, South Africa as incoming chair and Zimbabwe as outgoing chair, which is why President Mnangagwa is attending the summit with his team.
The Double Troika summit will be preceded by meetings of ministers and senior officials.
The meeting was initially scheduled for last month but was postponed owing to the absence of Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Masisi was reportedly in quarantine, following contact with a person who later tested positive for the coronavirus, while Ramaphosa was attending to urgent domestic matters.
Today’s meeting is expected to receive a report of the technical assessment team that was deployed in Mozambique following the decisions of the SADC Extraordinary Double Troika Summit held on 8 April.