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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: Zimbabwe opposition will join government AFP - Saturday, January 31 HARARE (AFP) - - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he will join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe, almost a year after disputed polls that plunged the country into crisis. Heeding a call by Southern African leaders, Tsvangirai told reporters after a meeting of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) that he will be sworn in as prime minister on February 11. "We are unequivocal, we will go into this government," Tsvangirai said after his party's national council agreed it would go ahead with the unity government. "The SADC (Southern African Development Community) has decided and we are bound by that decision," he said. "February 11 is the swearing in of the prime minister and the deputy prime minister." Regional leaders, who have long been trying to persuade the MDC to enter government with Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, held a crisis summit in South Africa at the start of the week when they urged the feuding parties to implement a stalled power-sharing agreement by mid-February. The 15-nation bloc maintains that the accord signed last September remains the best chance of pulling Zimbabwe out of a political and economic crisis since disputed polls in March but it has been held up by disputes over key posts. Mugabe's government welcomed the decision, saying the opposition was "shifting from external influence". "We welcome it, we expected them to do that," information minister Paul Mangwana told AFP. "We are happy that for the first time they have now recognised themselves as Zimbabweans and we are happy that they are shifting from external influence and have started to reason like Zimbabweans," Mangwana said. The 84-year-old president has long accused the MDC of being a tool of Britain and the United States, whose governments are opposed to his regime. Mugabe's party has already said it accepts the SADC timeframe, and has previously threatened to set up a unity government with or without Tsvangirai. Friday's commitment to end the political stalement was welcomed by South Africa, which has faced increasing global pressure to act on the crisis as chair of SADC and broker of the unity deal. The new government will pave the way for Zimbabwe's challenges to be tackled and for free and fair elections in the future, it said in a statement. Zimbabwe has been in meltdown since elections last March when Tsvangirai pushed Mugabe into second place but fell short of an overall majority. A cholera outbreak has claimed more than 3,000 lives, more than half the population is in need of food aid and inflation was last officially announced at 231 million percent. The extent of the economic breakdown was highlighted Thursday in a new budget that allowed Zimbabweans to abandon their currency in favour of US dollars or South African rands. The decision formalised the forex trading that has become the only way for Zimbabweans to buy even basic goods, in a country where trillions of dollars in local currency are needed to buy a loaf of bread. The extent of the cholera crisis was further underlined Friday when the World Health Organization said the number of deaths had reached 3,161, out of 60,401 recorded cases,. Eric Laroche, a WHO assistant director-general, warned the outbreak would continue unabated unless "political differences are put aside," impoverished Zimbabwean health workers are paid, and the country's health system is bolstered. Mugabe, Africa's oldest leader, has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980 and the country was initially seen as a post-colonial success story. His first-round election defeat in March was followed by a brutal wave of political violence. Tsvangirai pulled out of the run-off, citing violence against his supporters, leaving Mugabe to declare a one-sided victory in June. Few African leaders have publicly criticised Mugabe but Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade raised the notion of him standing down on Friday, by saying he had offered him asylum. "If he leaves power he will not go to Europe," Wade said in a debate on Africa at the World Economic Forum in Davos, "so I told him: 'Come to Senegal'." "My friend Mugabe does not want to make concessions, we are at a dead end, he can no longer govern the country alone," added the Senegal leader. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Enlarge Photo Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, seen here on January 26, has said his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe next month. Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed US House approves massive economic stimulus bill Financial crisis bringing global economy to standstill: IMF Soldier suicides hit record in 2008: US Army Merkel and Brown call for global economy rules Boeing to cut 10,000 jobs after loss View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular

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