The condition of Levy Mwanawasa , the Zambian president is now critical Zambia’s vice president Rupiah Banda said on Monday.
Mwanawasa who has been confined to a Paris hospital since he suffered a stroke in late July on the eve of African Union summit.
The Southern African Development Community on Sunday reteriated the MDC’s position that the March 29 election should be the basis for any agreement and said Parliament should be convened.
In a communique adopted at the end of the two-day summit, the SADC said parliament must be convened - saying that “while negotiations are continuing, it may be necessary to convene Parliament to give effect to the will of the people as expressed on March 29″.
The Delicate talks between the MDC and ZANU PF could collapse as negotiations on roles and the distribution of power in the all-inclusive government are failing to yield an agreement.
ZANU PF is reportedly shifting goalposts and Mugabe has demanded on top of the privilege to appoint the cabinet, powers to fire the Prime Minister and chair the cabinet.
SA President Thabo Mbeki will assume the chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) this weekend, South Africa`s department of foreign affairs said on Sunday.
The department said SA will assume the chairmanship when it hosts the ordinary SADC Heads of State and Government Summit in Sandton, Gauteng next Saturday and Sunday.
The aim of the [...]
As talks resume today,the MDC leadership has repeated that power sharing talks in South Africa should not usurp the will of the people and they will not accept any deal that does not give its President Morgan Tsvangirai a substantive position.
Earlier there were reports that ZANU PF negotiators had been instructed to negotiate around a [...]
MDC Mutambara faction deputy secretary general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga is the source of the media mole story that was published by the newzimbabwe.com website that alleged that MDC Women’s Assembly chair Theresa Makone,MDC-Harare North., was dismissed from the talks, Metro has established.
The story was fed to Mduduzi Mathuthu the website’s editor and has since been proven [...]
The MDC has dismised a report that appeared in a london based website that claimed that one of the observers to the talks,MDC Women’s league Chair and Harare North MP,Theresa Makone was last night ejected from the talks for
allegedly leaking information to the media.
‘That report is completely false’ MDC Information Officer, [...]
The MDC has beefed up its negotiating team to include two extra observers of the power-sharing talks between the ruling ZANU-PF and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change. A move Political analysts say is meant to facilitate quick decision making by the representatives.
The MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai will be represented at [...]
It has emerged that South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki told a delegation of African church leaders that he unshamendly supports President Mugabe and said the MDC and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai were a puppets of the West.
The Church leaders say they were shocked at the news.
The African religious leaders met Mbeki to discuss the Zimbabwean [...]
Election Developments
The entire Executive Council of the MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara was wiped out. All seats were lost to the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai and non were lost to ZANU PF.
Prof Arthur G. O. Mutambara, President lost Zengeza West,Got the least of all members of the Executive council.
Mr Gibson Sibanda ,Vice President [...]
