Wardman Wire Magazine

I’ve wanted to return to covering developments in Zimbabwe.

The BBC reports that a deal has been reached between Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangarai:

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe have reached a deal to share power.

After mediating four days of talks in Harare, South African President Thabo Mbeki said the deal would be signed and made public on Monday.

Mr Mugabe has not yet commented. The two sides had already agreed that Mr Tsvangirai would be prime minister with Mr Mugabe staying on as president.

But negotiations had faltered over how the two sides were to share power.

Mr Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, was first to announce the deal as the talks ended.

Later, Mr Mbeki told a news conference: “An agreement has been reached about all the matters on the agenda of the negotiations.”

We won’t see the detail until Monday. I have no idea whether it will work; I am sure that it will require an enormous commitment from Civil Society to police their government.