The fourteen members States from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) met in Dar-Es-Salam (Tanzania) on 28 and 29 March 2007, within the framework of the SADC Double Troika and SADC Summit to address the situation in the region, particularly in the DRC and in Zimbabwe. The SADC Troika meetings bring together past, current and future Chairpersons of the SADC (current Troika members are Lesotho, Zambia and Botswana).

During the summit, Heads of States and Government from that region should ask President Robert Mugabe to start discussions with the leader of the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai, who, during the last weeks, has been arrested twice and badly treated during his detention, what triggered indignations and critics around the world. The majority of leaders from Southern Africa, expressed their diagreement with foreign, and particularly western, pressions and interventions; in that respect South Africa criticized what it called, "megaphone diplomacy", calling rather for a "discret diplomacy" at the SADC level and particularly for an internal dialogue between president Mugabe and the opposition.

Source: AFP; South Africa DOFA