Johannesburg  - A summit of Southern African leaders called Sunday for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival, prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai, to share control of the contested Home Affairs Ministry.

The dispute over the key internal security agency has threatened to sink a power-sharing deal that had offered a way out of Zimbabwe's political stalemate.

Harare - Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper on Saturday blamed the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai for the stalemate in negotiations for a power-sharing deal and called on President Robert Mugabe to go ahead and appoint a new cabinet.

Tsvangirai and Mugabe signed a power-sharing deal in mid-September but have failed to agree on the distribution of ministries. The MDC accuses Mugabe of grabbing all the key portfolios such as home affairs, finance, foreign affairs, information, local government and justice.

Harare- President Robert Mugabe's regime has promised it will repay an international donor organization 6.5 million US dollars that was meant for the country's anti-malaria campaign but which has mysteriously disappeared.

The money was part of a 103-million-dollar grant from the Geneva- based Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, 28.5 million dollars of which was destined to the Health Ministry for prevention and treatment of malaria, the often fatal mosquito-borne disease that affects nearly 3 million Zimbabweans.

Johannesburg/Harare - Talks between President Robert Mugabe and pro-democracy leader Morgan Tsvangirai over the share of government ministries between them were due to resume Friday for the fourth successive day, with no sign the deadlock could be resolved.

Even the usually optimistic Herald, the daily propaganda newspaper of Mugabe's ZANU(PF) party, said in a headline, "Cabinet talks hit brick wall" after Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a lesser faction of the MDC, disbanded late Thursday after eight hours of fruitless debate.

Harare - A month-long standoff between Zimbabwe's political parties over the implementation of a power-sharing deal appeared to be at an end Thursday, with sources saying President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival Morgan Tsvangirai had agreed on a composition of a unity government.

"An acceptable compromise has been reached," a senior official from Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on condition of anonymity, on leaving the talks at an hotel in Harare.

Harare- Talks on the fiercely disputed sharing of cabinet posts between Zimbabwean President Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC) resumed Thursday amid conflicting signs of progress.

Mugabe was the last to arrive at the talks venue, keeping Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a small offshoot of the MDC who is also involved, waiting for about two hours. He told reporters that he was no longer sure the negotiations would end Thursday.