Zimbabwe to attend election crisis summit

Zimbabwe said today it was prepared to brief an emergency summit of southern African leaders on the situation in the country, but did not indicate whether President Robert Mugabe would attend.

Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said that although it was not normal for another country – in this case Zambia – to call such a summit, “Zimbabwe would appraise the regional bloc of political developments in the wake of the elections,” the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported.