Mugabe, South Africa hail progress in Zimbabwe talks

reuters.com     Aug 7, 2008            

By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa, which has been mediating to end Zimbabwe's political crisis, said on Thursday power-sharing talks were making good progress. South Africa has been leading regional peace efforts and President Thabo Mbeki was expected later in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, where President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai were due to meet. The two sides began talking two and a half weeks ago to defuse a crisis which came to a head after the veteran president was reelected in a widely condemned June poll boycotted by the opposition. "Government as the mediator will not be giving any details about details of the talks except to say that they are progressing extremely well," a South African spokesman said. Johannesburg's daily Star said South African mediators had met... [read full story]                    

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