No sign of Zimbabwe peace talks

African mediators have asked Zimbabwe’s opposition to open talks with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party but no meetings are planned, opposition leaders said today.

Kgalema Motlanthe, secretary-general of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, and senior Nigerian diplomat Adebayo Adedeji want the two sides to meet to negotiate an end to Zimbabwe’s political standoff, said Tendai Biti, the opposition’s foreign affairs spokesman.