ZIMBABWE DEAL UNDER THREAT

The power-sharing being brokered in Zimbabwe is under threat after Robert Mugabe allocated control of three major arms of the government to his ruling Zanu-PF party.

The opposition MDC have accused Mugabe of acting unilaterally
The president handed control of defence, home affairs and finance to Zanu-PF, excluding the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The MDC rejected the move, accusing Mr Mugabe of acting unilaterally and saying it jeopardised the agreement to govern jointly that was struck last month.
It follows a meeting between the two leaders during which they agreed to call back talks facilitator South Africa's Thabo Mbeki.
Talks have been deadlocked for nearly a month over which cabinet posts should go to whom in a new unity government.
The MDC has argued it should take the lion's share of power as it won most votes in a first round of elections in March.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round after mounting violence against his supporters.
The MDC said in a statement on Friday that Zanu-PF was trying to make it a "bystander" in the new cabinet.
Once hailed as a model economy and a regional breadbasket, Zimbabwe's fortunes have nosedived since 2000 when Mr Mugabe seized white-owned farms and handed them over to landless black people, many of whom had no farming skills.
But the government blames the country's economic woes on sanctions imposed by Britain and its allies after he allegedly rigged his 2002 re-election.
The southern African nation is suffering from foreign exchange, fuel and food shortages.
Zimbabwe's inflation rate soared to 231,000,000% in July, the world's highest.