Talks between Zimbabwean factions 'have resumed'

Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition resumed talks today aimed at resolving the country’s violent political crisis, an official said.

South African President Thabo Mbeki has been mediating on-again, off-again talks for more than a year, and his spokesman, Mukoni Ratshitanga, said a new round had begun. “They started talking this morning” in South Africa, Ratshitanga said.