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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday that there was no progress in power-sharing talks with the ruling ZANU PF party, in a statement that appears to signal the collapse of the latest effort to save Zimbabwe’s fragile power-sharing deal. Tsvangirai blamed lack of progress on intransigence by ZANU PF and on the incompetence of [...]
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Zimbabwe’s political rivals have reached an “understanding” on a constitutional amendment crucial to forming a unity government, but have yet to settle other disputes, the opposition said in Johannesburg on Friday. “There has been some shared understanding on the issue of the constitutional amendment” which will set out the powers of the new prime minister, opposition [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC believes talks in South Africa aimed at implementing a power-sharing deal with the ruling party are close to collapse, a senior MDC source said on Wednesday.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Zimbabwe's opposition MDC believes talks in South Africa aimed at implementing a power-sharing deal with the ruling party are close to collapse, a senior MDC source said on Wednesday.
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Yet another round of negotiations on power-sharing in Zimbabwe opened Tuesday in South Africa at the urging of that nation's president, Kgalema Motlanthe, while from United Nations headquarters Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the parties to come to rapid agreement on forming a unity government to address a "desperate" humanitarian situation. Negotiators for the long-ruling ZANU-PF party of President...
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Zimbabwe's political rivals will meet in South Africa today in a bid to resolve a deadlock in power-sharing talks. President Kgalema Motlanthe says Zanu-PF, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the breakaway MDC faction will meet with former President, Thabo Mbeki, in Pretoria. They are expected to discuss a draft constitutional amendment paving the way for a new government. The...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has warned that Zanu PF's continued intransigence on power-sharing could result in civil unrest as the population may lose confidence in a peaceful settlement of the country's political and economic crises.
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
In a scathing letter printed in the Star on Friday former South African president Thabo Mbeki accuses Zimbabwe's opposition of stonewalling power-sharing talks. The 4 000-word letter was written before the latest round of talks on a unity accord fell apart this week, with Tsvangirai demanding that Mbeki step down as the mediator in Zimbabwe's political crisis. Mbeki slammed Tsvangirai's...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... Phandu Skelemani yesterday suggested in an interview with the BBC that if the ongoing power- sharing talks in Pretoria collapse, SADC must accept it had failed and consider further measures against Mugabe.Zimbabwe has accused Botswana of providing opposition activists with military training to overthrow Mugabe. Botswana dismissed the allegations as "nonsensical and absurd". It invited...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The opposition leader , declared his relationship with the mediator , the recently ousted South African president, irretrievably broken on Wednesday and said he would not participate in power-sharing talks with ’s leader, , until Mr. Mbeki was no longer in charge. Despite pressure from regional leaders to settle the standoff with Mr. Mugabe, Mr. Tsvangirai said his country’s humanitarian...
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
JOHANESBURG – Zimbabwe’s opposition said the ruling ZANU PF party’s “intransigence and lack of sincerity” have blocked political settlement in the crisis-sapped country as the two rivals began a fresh round of power-sharing talks in South Africa on Tuesday. Negotiators from the ruling party and the two opposition MDC formations were meeting mediator ex-South African leader Thabo Mbeki...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... a claim refuted by neighbouring South Africa. In addition, Tsvangirai said that fresh power-sharing talks had made no progress and has called for a new political mediator saying that relations with former South African leader, Thabo Mbeki, the region's long-time mediator, had irretrievably broken down due to his bias towards Mugabe.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Washington - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on African nations to take more steps to pressure Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to reach a political deal with the opposition. Mugabe appears to be breaking his promise to form a power-sharing agreement with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the wake of disputed elections earlier this year, Rice said. "It is shortsighted...
