GABORONE – A Southern Africa counter terrorism strategy would be presented to regional state governments for adoption, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has said.
A three-day workshop launched on Wednesday on the development of the strategy is underway in Botswana’s capital city of Gaborone.
The regional and national counter-terrorism strategies have not been prioritized up until recently as historically the terrorism threat to the regional remained low, said Botswana’s Minister for Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Eric Molale.
He spoke at the opening ceremony of the workshop.
“Recent developments have shown that southern Africa is not immune to terrorist activities,” he said.
The experts from the UN, AU and SADC and its 15 member-states are expected to work on finalising the text of the draft strategy and on developing a plan of action to implement it.
Subsequently the final draft strategy will be presented to SADC member-state governments for adoption.
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The workshop is the last in a series of three. Two previous editions of the workshop took place in November in Zimbabwe and in March in Zambia respectively. (Xinhua/NAN)
