MDC sets its sights on the UN
Opposition sees this week’s call for a broader regional summit as a major step towards a plan to drive the Zimbabwe crisis back on to the UN agenda.
Opposition sees this week’s call for a broader regional summit as a major step towards a plan to drive the Zimbabwe crisis back on to the UN agenda.
Human rights abuses are going unpunished and the food crisis is worsening in Zimbabwe while President Robert Mugabe and the opposition bicker.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Tuesday demanded that the government give its leader Morgan Tsvangirai a passport to attend an upcoming summit.
Thabo Mbeki said on Monday he was confident a summit would salvage an agreement between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the MDC opposition.
Zimbabwe’s opposition warned on Tuesday its leader might steer clear of another regional summit designed to save a power-sharing accord.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai might not attend a summit of regional leaders next week in Harare, his spokesperson said on Tuesday.
President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF on Tuesday accused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of stalling on a power-sharing deal.
Regional efforts to help Zimbabwe ground to a halt on Monday as Morgan Tsvangirai refused to attend a summit until he is granted a passport.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is not attending regional talks on Monday aimed at saving his country’s power-sharing deal.
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader said on Friday that four days of ”intense” negotiations have failed to break the deadlock in power-sharing talks.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai were set on Friday to resume power-sharing talks for a fourth day.
Thabo Mbeki has little leverage to push Zimbabwe’s feuding parties to agreement, having lost his clout as leader of the region’s most powerful state.
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki prepared to hold talks on Tuesday with Zimbabwe’s political rivals in a bid to save a flagging power-sharing deal.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sworn in two vice-presidents ahead of talks on forming a Cabinet, a government official said on Monday.
President Robert Mugabe has laid claim to all key Cabinet posts and Zimbabwe’s powerful state security apparatus.
Zimbabwe’s political rivals agreed on Friday to seek renewed mediation by former SA president Thabo Mbeki to try to end the unity-government deadlock.
The already fragile government is being further weakened by growing distrust from both sides.
Zimbabwe’s political parties met on Wednesday to iron out differences over the division of Cabinet posts, but failed to reach agreement, the MDC says.
As the two leaders fought internal battles Zimbabweans received mixed messages about whether a new government is still a possibility.
Zimbabwe’s logjam in forming a unity government could pull recently ousted South African president Thabo Mbeki back into the spotlight.
A hard look at Zim’s settlement agreement shows that Morgan Tsvangirai succeeded in winning none of the demands he initially insisted on.
The mother of three, who gives her name as Beatrice, still doesn’t know who raped her. They were three men with beer on their breath.
Negotiators for Zimbabwe’s political leaders failed on Friday to agree which parties should get key ministries in a new unity government.
Zimbabwe’s leaders failed on Thursday to agree on who will get which key ministries in a new unity government.
President Robert Mugabe told his party on Wednesday that sharing power with rivals was a ”humiliation” that would have to be accepted.
Zimbabwe’s new government will have six executive posts headed by President Robert Mugabe and prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Zimbabwe’s rival political parties signed a landmark power-sharing deal on Monday which will see President Robert Mugabe ceding some of his powers.
About ,8bn in aid to revive Zimbabwe’s economy hangs in the balance as donors watch to see how a deal works in practice.
For the March election campaign a car dealership owned by a top Zanu-PF official supplied the party with more than 200 overpriced 4x4s.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF agreed a power-sharing deal with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change on Thursday.
To date Zanu-PF and the MDC have failed to come up with any agreement for ”power-sharing”. Power-sharing to achieve what?
Some of President Robert Mugabe’s senior aides have had secret negotiations with SA mediators in an effort to secure prosection amnesties.