Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai seeks Meeting with Mugabe

Zimbabwean Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai wants to meet President Robert Mugabe in an effort to save deadlocked power-sharing talks, his party’s spokesman Nelson Chamisa has said. Speaking Friday in Harare, Chamisa said Tsvangirai had already formally requested the meeting but Mugabe had not yet responded. Talks towards the formation of a coalition government in accordance with a September 15 power sharing Accord signed between Mugabe and Tsvangirai have remained stuck over the control of key ministries and the abductions of opposition supporters and civil society activists. Meanwhile, Zimbabwean authorities have delayed the reopening of schools out of fear that teachers may not report to work amid the worsening economic meltdown and cholera crisis that has killed over 1,800 people. [PE]