NEW: SADC’S outgoing chairman arrives for Summit

Online Reporter

ANGOLAN President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco has arrived at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport ahead of the 44th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government Summit tomorrow.

Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Minister Monica Mutsvangwa received President Lourenco at the airport in Harare.

Angola is a founding member SADC, having joined the regional bloc, formerly the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), at its formation in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1980.

The Angolan President is the outgoing chair of SADC and will be handing over the reins to President Mnangagwa.

Angola has a population of 35, 59 million.  It is the 23rd largest country in the world by area.

It covers 1 245 700 square kilometres.

Its neighbours are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia and Namibia.

Portuguese is the official language in Angola and indigenous languages spoken in that country are Umbundu, Kimbundu and Kikongo.

As of 2023, Angola’s official estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was US$504, 01 billion.