Zimbabwe rivals deadlocked as UN warns over aid
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Hopes are fading that a new Zimbabwean government will be able to quickly overcome the country's economic crisis.
Zimbabwe's rival political parties still have not agreed on how they will share power.
Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are at loggerheads over the allocation of cabinet posts.
President Mugabe says he expects a new unity government to be formed by the end of this week, but the MDC says he wants his party to retain all the key ministries, a position the MDC rejects.
Aid groups are warning that the delay in forming a new government is further jeopardising the welfare of Zimbabweans.
The UN's chief of humanitarian affairs, John Holmes, estimates that a third of the population already relies on aid and that half of Zimbabweans could soon be in need of constant food and medical assistance.
