A HIGH-powered United States-Southern Africa Development Community Forum is to be held in the Botswana capital Gaborone on April 14 and 15, according to a government statement on Thursday. The Forum is viewed as a culmination of agreements that have been entered into between SADC and US government in the past four years, the statement added. According to SADC Executive Secretary Dr Kaire Mbuende, the SADC-US Forum is to be an annual formal dialogue aimed at building a deeper co-operation and engagement between the SADC member states and the United States.