MDC, Zanu-PF 'in talks'
2008-04-03 11:10
Harare - Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano is in Zimbabwe to help broker talks between embattled President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change on the outcome of last weekend's elections, diplomatic sources say.
Chissano was president of Zimbabwe's neighbour, Mozambique, from 1986 to 2005. Since stepping down he had regularly been called on by international bodies to mediate in conflicts.
A longtime friend of Zimbabwe's leader of 28 years, Chissano was best man at Mugabe's wedding to his second wife, Grace.
He was also a member of a team of elder African statesmen and women who mediated in Kenya's bloody post-election conflict earlier this year. -Sapa-dpa
- SAPA