Administrative Measures 21.4. Zimbabwe continues to cooperate in peace keeping missions within the UN, SADC and AU Peace and Security Architecture. The Zimbabwe Republic Police Service also continues to raise awareness campaigns on peace building, cohesion and unity in the country, through inclusive community policing mechanisms. 21.5. Government also continues to maintain and support its foreign missions around the world and has representatives in strategic international organisations such as the AU and UN to advance respect for international law, peaceful co-existence with other nations, and settlement of international disputes by peaceful means, through regional and Pan-African cultural, economic and political cooperation and integration and participation in international and regional organisations that stand for peace and the well-being and progress of humanity. Challenges 21.6. Although Zimbabwe is not under threat of direct terrorist attacks, the region remains under the potential threat of human and economic insecurity caused by periodic droughts and famine. 21.7. The situation in some hot spots of the sub-region such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and the region such as the conflict situation in the Horn of Africa, Northern Nigeria, Libya, Mali, Sudan, and South Sudan remain a great threat to Zimbabwe through spill-over and trans-boundary conflict. 21.8. There has been interference by the USA, Britain and its allies through its hostile foreign policies such as illegal sanctions in the Page | 58