Topic: Movement for Democratic Change
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's political rivals have agreed some outstanding issues of a power-sharing deal, but the pace of negotiations is slow, a South African official mediating in the talks said on Tuesday. President Robert Mugabe and long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai, now prime minister, formed a unity government last year in February after disputed elections, but the coalition has been ...
Defence lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have demanded the judge take himself out of the case because of bias towards the prosecution, a defence lawyer said on Thursday. Roy Bennett, a former white farmer who is treasurer to Tsvangirai's party, is charged with terrorism over an alleged plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe ...
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday said he had called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for three weeks. "We have suspended our disengagement in the government," Tsvangirai told reporters after talks at an emergency regional summit to break the impasse in the Mozambican capital. Tsvangirai said ...
President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are "poles apart" on fundamental issues affecting their unity government, a minister said Monday after Zimbabwe's feuding leaders held talks. The two leaders met for the first time in 10 days in a bid to restore power-sharing ties but failed to make progress, said Nelson Chamisa, spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement ...
