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The Southern African Development Community has come in for flak for being overly cautious and sluggish in its response to a brutal Islamist terrorist insurgency in northern Mozambique. But the regional body seems to be getting its act together with a plan on the table to send 3,000 troops to aid a member state that’s under attack, and provide a “robust” response to the insurgents. Not everyone, however, thinks this is a wise move. Gilbert Khadiagala points out that the regional body has a poor track record of intervening in civil conflicts. And he warns that interventions hastily prepared by military leaders without deep contextual knowledge of
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Displaced people arrive in Pemba, Mozambique, after fleeing Palma following a brutal attack by Islamist insurgents in March.
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Gilbert M. Khadiagala, University of the Witwatersrand
The Southern African Development Community does not have a remarkable record of military interventions in civil conflicts in the region.
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Excavating Nok terracotta figurines at the research site.
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The study yields the first direct chemical evidence for honeybee product exploitation in West Africa.
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