By announcing he would hold another summit in Paris, the French president highlighted his determination to press forward on what he sees as a long-overdue discussion of American-style capitalism and its excesses.

This summit of G-20 leaders and the G-20 meeting of finance ministers last weekend have begun to lay a productive foundation of discussion, input, and agreement. What matters now are the follow up actions. People are looking to leaders for a global, coordinated and fast response.

PRESIDENT Mugabe has started the process of forming an inclusive Government in line with the recommendations of last Sunday's Sadc Extraordinary Summit that called for its urgent establishment.

South Africa is the only country from Africa represented at Saturday's summit of the heads of state of the G20 grouping of countries, called to discuss the global financial crisis emanating from the developed world. In an AllAfrica guest column, Peter Draper of the SA Institute for International Affairs sets out how the country should represent its, and Africa's interests in the meeting.

The MDC has disagreed with a resolution aimed at ending a deadlock in talks on forming a cabinet at an emergency SADC summit

Next week's global finance summit in Washington must launch rapid reforms to prevent a fresh outbreak of the credit crisis that has rocked the world economy, European Union leaders will said.

INTENSE lobbying to influence Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders by ZANU-PF and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ahead of an extraordinary summit scheduled for early next month to discuss the deadlock over the distribution of ministries has begun amid indications that the regional body will most likely endorse the decisions of the Troika.

The MDC on Monday boycotted the SADC Troika discussions on Zimbabwe after its leader Morgan Tsvangirai was denied a passport to travel to Swaziland for the summit.

FOURTEEN heads of state, including Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and the new South African president, Kgalema Motlanthe, have confirmed their attendance of the Tripartite Summit that opens in Kampala on Wednesday.

As tourism industry leaders from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle met Thursday for a summit on offshore drilling, David Mattiford ...