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North-South Corridor
Regional projects in transport and power have been identified by
SADC, COMESA and EAC along the North-South Corridor to
deepen integration and increase trade. At a high-level tripartite meeting
in Lusaka, Zambia in April 2009, the three economic communities met
with development partners who pledged US$1.2 billion to upgrade
road, rail and port infrastructure and support trade along the North-
South Corridor which traverses eight countries in east and southern
Africa, linking the port of Durban and others in Southern Africa with
the East African port of Dar es Salaam.
One Stop Border Post
The first One Stop Border Post (OSBP) in the SADC Region
was commissioned at Chirundu between Zambia and
Zimbabwe on 1 September 2009 to facilitate trade and
movement of goods and services, a new benchmark for regional
integration. Under the OSBP, travellers are cleared just once for
passage into another country contrary to the current situation
where travellers have to be cleared on both sides of the border.
SADC is expected to roll out the OSBP concept to other border
posts in the region as it seeks to harmonise policies to enable
regional integration.
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The 29 SADC Summit was held in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of 2009-2010
Congo on 7-8 September 2009, hosted and chaired by President Joseph
Kabila Kabange.

Special Mediation Missions
The Summit was attended by Sir Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, the former
President of Botswana, and Joaquim Alberto Chissano, the former President of the
Republic of Mozambique, who appraised the Summit on their respective missions as
mediators for the dialogue on the political situation in Lesotho and Madagascar,
respectively. The outgoing chair of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security
Cooperation, His Majesty King Mswati III of Eswatini, updated Summit on the political
and security challenges in the region. The Summit noted progress made in implementing
the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe and called on the international community
to remove all forms of sanctions.

Protocols and other Legal Instruments Signed at Summit
The Summit approved and/or signed the following legal instruments: MOU on Regional
Cooperation and Integration among the COMESA, the EAC and the SADC; Declaration
on Regional Cooperation in Competition and Consumer Laws and Policies; Agreement
Amending the Treaty (Deputy Executive Secretary) to create a second Deputy; Agreement
Amending the Protocol on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, and consequential
amendments to the Treaty; and Agreement Amending the Protocol on the Development
of Tourism in SADC.