The European Union has threatened to impose new sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his allies unless a power-sharing deal with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is promptly implemented.
The joint statement was made at an EU meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg. This comes after Mugabe swore in two vice presidents and unilaterally allocated three key ministries to his ZANU-PF party. Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said his party could not participate in a power-sharing government under such circumstances. Meanwhile, former South African President Thabo Mbeki has arrived in Zimbabwe's capital Harare to try to break an impasse over the power-sharing deal that he brokered four weeks ago.
(Deutsche Welle)
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