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| Zim: Opposition, ruling party fail to meet |
| 2008-10-08 |
| (SomaliNet) Denying it planned new talks later in the day with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, Zimbabwe's opposition renewed a call on Monday for regional mediators to help break an impasse over a fragile power-sharing deal. Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper reported that new talks would be held Monday on how to allocate contentious cabinet posts under the deal, which would keep Mugabe as president while naming opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister. However, the spokesperson for Opposition Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said that no new talks were scheduled for Monday, and again called for regional mediators to step in to break the impasse with Mugabe's Zanu-PF. "As far as we are concerned, there are no talks lined up today," spokesperson Nelson Chamisa told AFP. "Nothing has been concluded. Zanu-PF and Mugabe are trying to mislead the world and the nation," Chamisa said. "It is now time SADC and the AU come and assist in this matter," he added. The MDC had called last week for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) or the African Union to help break the impasse, but Mugabe's party insisted that no outside mediation was needed. |
| Posted by:Fred |