Southern African leaders are holding a crisis meeting in Swaziland on the Zimbabwe crisis.
Tanzanian President Kikwete, Zambian President and SADC chairman Levi Mwanawasa are attending but not South African President Thabo Mbeki, the designated mediator in the region. South Africa says there is no need for military intervention in crisis-hit Zimbabwe. The remarks came after Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for an international peacekeeping force in his country. President Robert Mugabe's government has vowed to go ahead with a presidential run-off election on Friday despite the withdrawal of opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai, citing political violence against his Movement for Democratic Change supporters. Tsvangirai has taken refuge at the Dutch embassy in Harare amid reports of an armed police raid on MDC regional offices.
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