MDC in talks with Kenyan PM
18/04/2008 14:17  - (SA)  

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Nairobi - A delegation from Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) held talks on Friday with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga over the escalating political crisis in Zimbabwe.

MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti said they were seeking Odinga's advice on how to address the worsening crisis in Zimbabwe, spurred by the delay in announcing the presidential results.

"Kenya is special to us, it is not by accident that we came to the office of the prime minister," Biti told reporters here.

"The people of Kenya share the pain of the people in Zimbabwe, like we shared the pain with you," he said, adding that they had arrived from Ghana where they also sought advice.

The MDC has launched a diplomatic campaign to rally African leaders' support in the political stand-off at home.

The MDC leader opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai claimed he had defeated President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe's March 29 presidential polls, but state media hinted that the pair could be facing off in a run-off.

Authorities in Zimbabwe have yet to release the results of the presidential election in which Mugabe, 84, sought a sixth term.

In Kenya, Odinga's claims that President Mwai Kibaki stole the December 27 polls touched off violence that stirred up tribal resentments, claimed at least 1 500 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

The scale of violence and destruction of property prompted the pair to launch negotiations that resulted in the creation of a coalition government that was sworn in on Thursday.

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