afrol News, 1 August - Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader is happy with power-sharing negations with President Robert Mugabe to unravel the country's political impasse.

Morgan Tsvangirai said talks, which were adjourned on Tuesday, would resume as planned on Sunday with Mr Mugabe's ZANU-PF party. A power-sharing negotiations began last week under international pressure after Mr. Mugabe's unopposed re-election was dismissed around the world as a sham.

After a meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade in the capital Dakar on Thursday, the MDC leader told reporters that like in any negotiations, sticking points still need to be unraveled.

Although the main opposition party is determined to find solution within a two-week time-frame, Mr. Tsvangirai feared about the inflexibility of the deadline. In his opinion, a two-week deadline looked too short to deal with all the issues on the table.

The two sides will resume their power-sharing Talks on Sunday, just a day before deadline of schedule of talks which will be held at an excluded location in South Africa.

South African President, Thabo Mbeki, who has been Zimbabwe's chief crisis negotiation mediator, said the two parties were determined to find solution within the two-week time frame, as the two rivals are aware that their political war has affected the country's economy and forced million people to flee the country to find greener pastures.

"The country is on its knees. Our people have no food, they have nothing and therefore in the spirit of trying to resolve the plight of our people, we have put faith in the only solution where we don't have guns to fight," Tsvangirai somberly said.

Zimbabwean President and the leader of ZANU-PF, Robert Mugabe, who ruled the landlocked Southern African country since 1980, has been fighting tooth and nail to retain his grip of power. He was defeated by Mr. Tsvangirai in the first round of voting.

According to some analysts, since both parties are deeply entrenched, it will be difficult for them to find a middle ground because each party believes it purely deserves the presidential seat.

They said there cannot be a creation of common grounds and healthy democratic environment if Zimbabwean authorities have not halted political violence and give unfettered access to humanitarian to the need people.

Louis Michel, the European Aid Commissioner said the negotiations should succeed in order to end violence in Zimbabwe. He said the current situation continues to risk the lives of thousands of innocent civilian lives, including women and children.

MDC said that more than 120 of its supporters have been killed, some 5,000 abducted and 200,000 forced to flee their homes after being attacked by Zanu-PF militias and security agents - accusations the Zanu-PF rejected.

By staff writer

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