WATCH LIVE: ZAMBIA SADC PROTESTS: Donors flee over Mnangagwa

WATCH LIVE: ZAMBIA SADC PROTESTS: Donors flee over Mnangagwa

WATCH LIVE as Gambakwe looks at the recent MPU signed by SADC and India. Gambakwe reveals that this agreement is meant to push SADC closer and closer to the BRICS group and is bad for Southern Africa.

This comes after almost all the grant facilities by bthe European Union to SADC are set to expire this year.

Topics

1. SADC is unlikely to maintain relations with traditional funders under Mnangagwa's rule. The EU Grants are coming to an end this year.
2. SADC is under funded and is currently struggling financially.
3. The SEOM report had given hope for more funding and cooperation agreements.
4. No European country will work with SADC if Mnangagwa is chairman.
5. The EU currently has 100% duty free for imports from Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique.
6. Mnangagwa will push SADC toward Russia and India, he is already working with SAUDI Arabia.


Grants

India (Regional Indicative Development Strategy 2020 - 2022)

Industrialization
Human and Social Development: health, education and skills development;
New and Emerging Technologies:
Trade and Investment
Disaster Risk Management
Women-led Development: .
Private Sector Development.
Space Cooperation
Green Growth and Green Infrastructure Development
Research and Innovation: In the areas of mutual interest.

EU

1. SADC secretariat 23 Million Euros
2. Regional economic integration 112 million Euros
3. Peace, Security and Regional Stability 35 million Euros
4. natural Resource Management 235 million Euros