African leaders seek to end Zimbabwe crisis

A delegation of African leaders held separate talks with Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe’s opposition leader today in an urgent round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at ending the political crisis that has plunged the nation into chaos.

South African President Thabo Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Malawi President Bakili Muluzi held closed-door talks for two hours at State House with President Mugabe, whose increasingly authoritarian rule has been blamed taking the country to the brink of economic collapse