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SADC summit for Maputo

    JOHANNESBURG

    Mozambique's foreign minister, Leonardo Simao, announced on Monday that the annual summit of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) will be held on 18 August in the Mozambican capital Maputo, media reports said.

    Simao was quoted as saying that said, SADC heads of state and government would review economic integration issues and also discuss the conflicts in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to news reports, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the former South African president, Nelson Mandela, have been invited to attend the summit.

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