By MacDonald Dzirutwe
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will this week meet regional leaders to pressure coalition partner President Robert Mugabe to resolve disputes in the country's unity government, a senior aide said on Monday.
Tsvangirai announced on Friday that his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party would disengage from Mugabe's "dishonest and unreliable" ZANU-PF party in the country's unity cabinet set up in February.
Analysts say the MDC's decision may not mean the end of the power-sharing government but it will put pressure on the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the regional body under whose auspices former South African President Thabo Mbeki brokered a settlement in Zimbabwe last year.
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The MDC boycott has sparked the country's biggest political crisis since the formation of the new administration in February this year, but Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba said on Sunday Mugabe would chair a cabinet meeting on Tuesday without the MDC.
An aide told Reuters that Tsvangirai would on Tuesday meet Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, who chairs the SADC's political panel on defence and security, in Maputo.
Tsvangirai would also this week travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo for a meeting with President Joseph Kabila, current SADC chairman, to urge the body to force Mugabe to honour the power-sharing agreement signed last year.
"He (Tsvangirai) will be meeting SADC leaders, including Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Jose Eduardo dos Santos (Angola)," the aide said, refusing to be named.
"We are doing all this to explain to the region the problems affecting the unity government. They (SADC) are the guarantors of this agreement."
Tsvangirai may travel to South Africa later on Monday, although spokesperson James Maridadi was not immediately available for comment.
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