30 day deadline passes and still no GPA implementation

Tuesday was the end of the 30 day deadline imposed by regional leaders on
Zimbabwe's unity government, to finally implement the Global Political
Agreement (GPA), but still nothing has changed.

The 30 day deadline was set at the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) Summit in Namibia where the regional bloc's defence body, the Troika,
endorsed a report by the facilitator in the Zimbabwe crisis, South African
President Jacob Zuma. Zuma's report suggested that the coalition government
be given another month to implement 24 outstanding issues in the GPA. In his
report to the Troika Zuma said if the agreement on the 24 items was
implemented on schedule, it would lay the basis "for the conviction to grow
that Zimbabwe can reach her goal of holding free and fair elections."