HELMOED RÖMER HEITMAN: Failed DRC mission — what now?
Focus needs to be on issues such as border security, maintaining a core strike force and rebuilding the SANDF
27 March 2025 - 05:00
The decision to terminate the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was the right one. The mission should never have been launched.
It was unrealistic to expect 5,000 Sadc troops to somehow achieve what the UN stabilisation mission in the DRC (Monusco) had not achieved with 15,000 troops...
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