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Zimbabwe: Talks Resume in Harare 8 September 2008 Cape Town — South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki headed for Harare again on Monday to try to nudge Zimbabwe’s deadlocked political parties into a powersharing settlement. The visit follows in the wake of a reported call by Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), for a fresh presidential election if the parties cannot agree. Parliamentary and presidential elections in March gave the MDC a slight edge over President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF, and the support it needed to take the speakership of Parliament, but not the presidency. A presidential run-off vote was organised for June but Tsvangirai pulled out of the race after violence against his supporters. The resulting election of Mugabe has little credibility in Africa or elsewhere. Talks facilitated by Mbeki, appointed to the role by the Southern African Development Community, have since failed to bridge differences between the MDC and Zanu-PF. Both have agr
Zimbabwe constitution talks resume after chaos Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:28am GMT By Nelson Banya HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe resumed a convention to draw up a new constitution on Tuesday after it was halted the on the first day following clashes between rival political parties that exposed tensions within a new unity government. The conference descended into chaos on Monday, forcing riot police to break up clashes between delegates, underscoring the tensions within a unity government President Robert Mugabe formed with arch-rival Morgan Tsvangirai in February. Mugabe and Tsvangirai condemned the clashes and said the conference would proceed. On Tuesday, police were deployed inside the conference venue to avoid a repeat of Monday’s trouble and authorities prevented several people without accreditation from entering. “This conference will map out a course for the people of Zimbabwe to write their own constitution,” Paul Mangwana, one of the conference co-chairmen from Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party s
