{"id":42789,"date":"2026-08-17T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42789"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:28:44","slug":"drc-conflict-threatens-regional-stability-chihana","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drc-conflict-threatens-regional-stability-chihana\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC conflict threatens regional stability: Chihana\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Malawi&#8217;s Second Vice President Enock Chihana says the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains critical and continues to pose a threat to regional stability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Chihana was speaking on Sunday evening during the opening of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Defence and Security Co-operation (Troika), meeting at the 46th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (SA).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He was speaking on behalf of Malawi, the outgoing chair of the SADC organ on politics, SADC Organ Troika.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Chihana represented Malawian President Arthur Mutharika, who is not attending the summit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The SADC Organ Troika is responsible for promoting peace, security, political stability and democratic governance within the SADC region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The organ co-ordinates regional responses to political and security challenges, including conflicts, elections, defence cooperation and peacekeeping efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In his opening remarks, Chihana said the people of eastern DRC have endured conflict for too long, stressing that lasting peace can only be achieved through collective efforts,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChanneAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38178,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-42789","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Chihana says the situation in DRC remains critical","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42809,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42789\/revisions\/42809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}