SID is the newest of the world church’s regions, covering much of Africa and island nations in the Indian Ocean.
SID is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which coordinates the Church’s activities in the southern portion of Africa, which include the nations of Angola, Ascension Island, Botswana, Comoro Islands, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Reunion, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe; as well as St. Helena and Tristan da Cunha, territories of the United Kingdom, and the Kerguelen Islands, territory of France.