Southern African Development Community (SADC) has set up a Regional Counter-Terrorism Centre (RCTC) in Tanzania that will coordinate the region’s counterterrorism efforts. The center is part of the 16-member bloc’s 2015 resolutions to adopt regional efforts against terrorism, violent extremism, and organized crimes.
Tanzania will host the center in its commercial hub Dar es Salaam to enhance, facilitate and combat terrorism threats in southern Africa.
The center comes at a time when the SADC states extended the mandate of the regional troop deployment fighting insurgents in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado in January. The bloc agreed to send troops to help the growing threat posed by the ISCAP insurgency that has affected Mozambique and threatening to spread to the neighboring nations especially Tanzania.
While the center is well-timed and necessary SI analysts maintain that for maximum effectiveness of the center; collaboration between the south and East African blocs is a prerequisite seeing as the threat by ISCAP affects nations in all the regions. It is especially true because ISCAP has direction collaboration with the branch in DRC and was under the overseership from IS Somalia.
