Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's main opposition party the Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) spokesman Nelson Chamisa gestures as he addresses a news conference at party headquarters in Harare,October 27 2009. Chamisa said a mediation team from the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) visiting Harare on Thursday had a political obligation to put pressure on Mugabe's ZANU-PF party to honour all aspects of the power-sharing agreement. Their fragile coalition lurched into a crisis earlier this month when party leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's said the MDC would stop attending cabinet meetings in protest against the arrest of one of its senior officials and Mugabe's refusal fully to implement the power-sharing pact.