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/ 18 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader said on Friday that four days of ”intense” negotiations have failed to break the deadlock in power-sharing talks.
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/ 17 October 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai were set on Friday to resume power-sharing talks for a fourth day.
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/ 16 October 2008
Police beat women in southern Zimbabwe who were urging politicians to resolve their differences and turn their attention to their suffering people.
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/ 16 October 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai failed on Wednesday to break an impasse on power sharing, but said talks had made progress.
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/ 15 October 2008
Zimbabwean parties resumed talks on Wednesday aimed at rescuing a power-sharing deal. The negotiations ended without agreement on Tuesday.
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/ 15 October 2008
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.
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/ 14 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s Parliament resumes work on Tuesday for a session that may test a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai.
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/ 13 October 2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sworn in two vice-presidents ahead of talks on forming a Cabinet, a government official said on Monday.
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/ 13 October 2008
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki was set to fly to Zimbabwe on Monday in a last-ditch bid to save a power-sharing deal.
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/ 10 October 2008
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.
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/ 10 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF said political leaders did not need to invite former SA president Thabo Mbeki to mediate as there was no deadlock on power sharing.
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/ 10 October 2008
The already fragile government is being further weakened by growing distrust from both sides.
Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday that power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe had stalled and outside mediation was needed.
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.
Newspaper editor Davison Maruziva says there’s plenty of freedom of expression in Zimbabwe. The problem is, ”there is no freedom after expression”.
President Robert Mugabe’s party says the MDC is putting Zimbabwe’s troubled power-sharing talks at risk by speaking publicly about the negotiations.
It’s a waiting game, and there is no one better at outlasting his competition than Zimbabwe’s longtime President Robert Mugabe.
ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday that Zimbabwe’s political parties should keep talking to resolve an impasse under a power-sharing deal.
Zimbabwe’s economic catastrophe is plunging the country into an ”information dark age”, according to media analysts.
Zimbabwe’s MDC renewed a call on Monday for regional mediators to help break an impasse over a fragile power-sharing deal.
Zimbabwe’s MDC said no new talks on a unity government would be held on Monday and called for regional mediation to resolve the dispute.
Six months after the elections, Zimbabwe still lacks a functioning government and is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Zimbabwe’s political leaders failed on Saturday to iron out differences which have held back a unity government aimed at ending the turmoil.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will meet opposition leaders later on Saturday to iron out differences over the makeup of a unity government.
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki has agreed to resume his mediation in neighbouring Zimbabwe’s political crisis, a spokesperson said on Friday.
As the two leaders fought internal battles Zimbabweans received mixed messages about whether a new government is still a possibility.
SA’s new leader on Thursday backed former president Thabo Mbeki as the mediator in Zimbabwe, saying he would revive a stalled power-sharing deal.
Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF has rejected a call for former SA president Thabo Mbeki to intervene in power-sharing talks.
Zimbabwe’s logjam in forming a unity government could pull recently ousted South African president Thabo Mbeki back into the spotlight.
Zimbabwe’s power-sharing agreement appeared near to collapse on Tuesday after Robert Mugabe demanded the right to appoint all Cabinet ministers
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/ 30 September 2008
Zimbabwe’s MDC has denied a suggestion by President Robert Mugabe that a unity government deal is imminent, saying talks are still deadlocked.
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/ 30 September 2008
Banking authorities have raised the daily withdrawal limit in Zimbabwe, prompting tens of thousands to line up in desperate hopes of getting cash.