Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is about to form a new government on his own, effectively breaking off talks with his pro-democracy opponents, the Movement for Democratic Change, state press reported Wednesday.

"We shall soon be setting up a government," the state-controlled daily Herald newspaper quoted him as saying. "The MDC does not want to come in apparently." He said he would be appoint cabinet ministers who would be "managers." He described his last cabinet as "the worst in history."

London, Aug. 22: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has abandoned a negotiated solution with Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai at the behest of the generals who prop him up.

Sources told The Independent that the embattled 84-year-old Mugabe has now set himself on a collision course with the opposition and international community after declaring he will open parliament next Tuesday despite his failure to agree a power-sharing deal.

Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe expressed "deep sorrow and shock" at the death of his Zambian counterpart and outspoken critic Levy Mwanawasa, calling him "a brother and colleague" in a statement sent to the Zambian capital Lusaka on Thursday.

Mwanawasa, 59, died on Tuesday in a French hospital after suffering a stroke in June on the eve of an African Union summit.

Mugabe sent the message of condolence to Zambia and the Mwanawasa family through Zambia's acting president Rupiah Banda.

Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF on T

London, Aug. 13 : Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe''s Zanu-PF party has claimed that it has inked a power-sharing deal with a dissident faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change [MDC] to create a new government in Zimbabwe.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the agreement with Arthur Mutambara is expected to sideline Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the main MDC bloc, who beat Mr Mugabe in the first round of the presidential election in March, taking just short of 50 per cent of the vote.