Harare (Zimbabwe), Sept. 15 : Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a power-sharing deal that will end months of political crisis and violence after bitterly-disputed elections.
Mugabe, 84, was greeted with some jeers as he entered the Rainbow Towers hotel in Harare for a ceremony, which was attended by several southern African leaders.
Tsvangirai was applauded by the audience, made up mostly of members of the opposition-dominated parliament.
Harare/Johannesburg - South African President Thabo Mbeki was the man of the hour in Africa Friday after clinching a hard-won power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's rivals of nearly a decade - President Robert Mugabe and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Welcoming Thursday's agreement on the formation of a government of national unity, the details of which have yet to be released, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised Mbeki's "tireless efforts to help them (the Zimbabwean leaders) reach it."
Harare/Johannesburg - Arch rivals Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, inked an historic power-sharing deal Thursday, ending Mugabe's 28-year monopoly on power.
Details of the deal have yet to be released, but Mugabe had been slated to remain president with fewer powers while Tsvangirai becomes prime minister.
The deal caps five months of political turmoil in Zimbabwe since Mugabe's unprecedented defeat in the first-round presidential election.
Harare - The death toll in a cholera outbreak in a crowded township in crisis-hit Zimbabwe has risen to 11 since the beginning of the month, state media reported Thursday.
The state-controlled daily Herald newspaper quoted Health Minister David Parirenyatwa as confirming the death toll and saying that 10 more people were sick in hospital with the highly contagious bacteria.
"We are still looking at all these community deaths in a bid to contain the situation," he said.
Harare - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe all but dollarised the economy Wednesday in licensing the sale of basic commodities in foreign currency in some stores as more and more traders refuse to work with the virtually worthless Zimbabwe dollar.
At a press conference Wednesday bank governor Gideon Gono defended the "innovation" as necessary to ensure the availability of goods in shops and secure much-needed foreign exchange.
Harare (Zimbabwe), Sept. 15 : Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a power-sharing deal that will end months of political crisis and violence after bitterly-disputed elections.
South African President Thabo Mbeki was the man of the hour in Africa Friday after clinching a hard-won power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's rivals of nearly a decade - President Robert Mugabe and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Harare/Johannesburg - Arch rivals Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, inked an historic power-sharing deal Thursday, ending Mugabe's 28-year monopoly on power.
Harare - The death toll in a cholera outbreak in a crowded township in crisis-hit Zimbabwe has risen to 11 since the beginning of the month, state media reported Thursday.
