Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday called for an African Union and regional peacekeeping force to ensure that general elections in the country will be peaceful.
The prospects of survival for Zimbabwe's power-sharing government are gloomy as an impasse has been reached in negotiations between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
President Robert Mugabe's grip on power was pried open one year ago Thursday when he was forced into a unity government, but deep-seated mistrust and political bickering are hampering Zimbabwe's recovery, with over 85% of the GPA tenets yet to be implemented.
Key southern African leaders opened a special summit in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday to discuss the ongoing crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
Zimbabwe's political rivals have agreed some outstanding issues of a power-sharing deal, but the pace of negotiations is slow, a South African official mediating in the talks said on Tuesday.