Southern African States To Hold Summit on Zimbabwe
Southern
African states have agreed to hold a special summit
on Zimbabwe as part of efforts to end a row over a
power-sharing pact between its leaders.
A meeting of the Heads of State of the Southern
African Development Community, (SADC) in Kinshasa ,
DR Congo had scheduled to discuss the months-long
political and economic crisis in Harare, but the
issue was pulled from the agenda at the last moment.
A spokesman for Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai,
James Maridadi said at the two-day meeting in the
Congolese capital, attended by President Robert
Mugabe and Tsvangirai that Zimbabwe was not on the
agenda.
He said it would need its own extraordinary summit
but did not elaborate on when and where the meeting
would take place.
Mugabe and Tsvangirai formed a power-sharing
government in February as part of an SADC-backed
deal to end a political crisis that followed
disputed polls in 2008.
But the power-sharing deal is beset with problems.
Reuters/ Qasim/ Austeen