The Southern African Development Community (SADC) inherited a world of trouble when it accepted the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a member in 1997. Now it seems to have taken on another problematic 'existing condition' by welcoming the Indian Ocean archipelago state of Comoros into its bosom as a full member - its 16th - in August this year.
Comoros should really go straight from new boy to SADC's naughty corner, a space normally reserved for the likes of DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar and Zimbabwe. But it's not clear that it will.
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