Zimbabwe’s prime minister has moved to defuse a looming crisis inside the country’s transitional government by denying that President Robert Mugabe has been set a deadline to meet demands from the Movement for Democratic Change, the former opposition party now in government.

Morgan Tsvangirai: ‘95 per cent of issues resolved’

“We had to express ourselves with the frustration with resolving some of the outstanding issues [including Zanu PF’s control of the central bank and the continued detention of MDC political prisoners] but there is no deadline,” Morgan Tsvangirai told the Financial Times.