ABSTRACT
Although the SADC security framework may not be the most comprehensive among the African Union’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs), it embodies a strong adherence to established rules of international law. This is particularly true of the provisions regulation resort to military force by the organisation. Despite criticism towards SADC for its inactions in many circumstances, SADC remains one of the few RECs to have occasionally intervened military in its member states. The latest such intervention is that of the SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM). This chapter examines the SAMIM deployment under international law and SADC treaty law governing the use of force. In doing so, it takes a contextual approach by comparing the intervention in Mozambique to that of previous SADC interventions, namely those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Lesotho.
