Harare (Zimbabwe), Sept. 15 : Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a power-sharing deal that will end months of political crisis and violence after bitterly-disputed elections.

Mugabe, 84, was greeted with some jeers as he entered the Rainbow Towers hotel in Harare for a ceremony, which was attended by several southern African leaders.

Tsvangirai was applauded by the audience, made up mostly of members of the opposition-dominated parliament.

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/Johannesburg - South African President Thabo Mbeki was the man of the hour in Africa Friday after clinching a hard-won power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's rivals of nearly a decade - President Robert Mugabe and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Welcoming Thursday's agreement on the formation of a government of national unity, the details of which have yet to be released, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised Mbeki's "tireless efforts to help them (the Zimbabwean leaders) reach it."

Harare/Johannesburg - Arch rivals Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, inked an historic power-sharing deal Thursday, ending Mugabe's 28-year monopoly on power.

Details of the deal have yet to be released, but Mugabe had been slated to remain president with fewer powers while Tsvangirai becomes prime minister.

The deal caps five months of political turmoil in Zimbabwe since Mugabe's unprecedented defeat in the first-round presidential election.

Harare - The death toll in a cholera outbreak in a crowded township in crisis-hit Zimbabwe has risen to 11 since the beginning of the month, state media reported Thursday.

The state-controlled daily Herald newspaper quoted Health Minister David Parirenyatwa as confirming the death toll and saying that 10 more people were sick in hospital with the highly contagious bacteria.

"We are still looking at all these community deaths in a bid to contain the situation," he said.

Harare  - Negotiators for Zimbabwe's political parties began a fourth day of power-sharing talks Thursday under the mediation of South African President Thabo Mbeki amid waning hopes of deal in the coming days.

President Robert Mugabe, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a breakaway MDC faction, were expected to join the talks later in the day.

Mbeki has been in Zimbabwe since Monday trying to push Mugabe and Tsvangirai the final mile towards a deal. Mbeki is the Southern African Development Community's mediator in Zimbabwe.