Sam Banda Junior AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi
Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state meeting in Kinshasa have proposed to hold another summit for Zimbabwe. This comes after Zimbabwe's PM Tsvangirai requested SADC to discuss the country's problems at the meeting and force president Mugabe to adhere to the power sharing agreement.
However, it is not yet clear as to when the summit will be held.
Reports say that the current meeting has no agenda for Zimbabwe and that it has set another special summit on the country as part of efforts to end a row over a power-sharing pact between the two leaders.
"Zimbabwe is not on the agenda. It is clearly not on the agenda," Tsvangirai spokesman James Maridadi said.
A Reuters report quoted Maridadi as saying that the meeting in Kinshasa has agreed to hold a special summit to discuss Zimbabwe’s problems.
"We've heard what the incoming and outgoing chairmen have said and it is indicative that there will be an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe," he said of the handover of the SADC chair from South Africa to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Mugabe and Tsvangirai entered into a government of national unity early this year but the two parties have failed to come to terms on the distribution of some top positions. The disagreements between the two and failure by Mugabe and his Zanu PF party to reform has led to donors fail to release funding.
The country is still in need of funding to uplift its economy which is still in shambles.
Tsvangirai's MDC party accuses Mugabe's ZANU-PF of failing to honour a pact to reverse the appointments of political allies to key posts. ZANU-PF, in turn, has charged that the MDC has not done enough to have EU and U.S. sanctions on Mugabe lifted.
But despite a special summit being proposed some senior SADC officials are reported to have questioned the proposal of another meeting saying it was not done in agreement.
Tsvangirai called on donors recently to forget the past and assist the southern African nation recover its economy. The country is in need of about $ 10 billion to put its economy back in shape.
Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state meeting in Kinshasa have proposed to hold another summit for Zimbabwe. This comes after Zimbabwe's PM Tsvangirai requested SADC to discuss the country's problems at the meeting and force president Mugabe to adhere to the power sharing agreement.
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