JOHANNESBURG, Aug 17: Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the main opposition have not yet reached a power-sharing agreement, an opposition spokesman said on Sunday.

President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been trying to reach a deal to end the post-election political crisis that has crippled Zimbabwe.

“There is no deal yet,” George Sibotshiwe, a spokesman for MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said without elaborating.

Tsvangirai said earlier on Sunday that power-sharing negotiations being held during a regional summit were going “very well”.

South African President Thabo Mbeki said leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) group of countries’ political, security and defence committee would continue talks on Zimbabwe after the summit, which has ended.

—Reuters