Harare - After a decade as the face of the opposition in Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai received his just deserts Monday when he was named prime minister in a government of national unity alongside Robert Mugabe as president.

The stocky Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, who, a year and a half ago was nursing a fractured skull following a beating in police custody, shook hands with Mugabe on a deal to share power aimed at ending Zimbabwe's decade-long political and economic woes.

Few would ever have imagined the day when ex-guerrilla fighter Mugabe, 84 and ex-trade union leader Tsvangirai, 56, would agree to work together to shore up the world's fastest-shrinking economy.

London, Sep 12 : Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have agreed to share power after a decade of bitter enmity and a brutal election campaign that saw more than 200 opposition supporters killed.

Announcing the deal, which came after weeks of stop-start negotiations, Thabo Mbeki, the South African President who had been mediating the process, said: “An agreement has been reached on all items on the agenda... all of them endorsed the document tonight.”

Harare - Powersharing talks between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai were due to continue Wednesday in Harare with both sides sounding upbeat about a possible breakthrough amid reports Mugabe was still continuing to threaten to form his own government.

At the end of a second day of talks in Harare mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki on behalf of Zimbabwe's neighbours, Movement for Democratic Change 
(MDC) leader Tsvangirai said Tuesday there had been "some positive developments."

Nairobi  - The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai, said on Thursday that if parliament was convened next week it would be a violation of the rules governing ongoing power- sharing talks.

"If he (President Robert Mugabe) convenes parliament, it is a violation of the conditions of the talks," Tsvangirai told journalists during a short visit to the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

A July 21 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which set down rules for the tripartite talks, orders parties not to convene parliament or form a new government except by consensus.

"A violation of the MOU would be up to mediators to deal with," he added.

Johannesburg, Aug. 10 : Zimbabwe''s leading opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has threatened to walk away from unity talks with President Robert Mugabe if he does not get his share in the controversially proposed power-sharing agreement.

With South African President Thabo Mbeki playing the role of chief mediator, the talks are still said to be at the crossroads. While the Mugabe camp is optimistic about the final outcome of the negotiations, there is a view that Mugabe will not cede majority control. To Tsvangirai''s Movement for Democrat Change (MDC).