Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday he was still determined to reach a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe despite the breakdown of talks between the two leaders.

Four days of negotiations ended Friday without producing an agreement on the allocation of Cabinet posts in a unity government.

“Our objective is to bring this government, Mugabe in particular, to the negotiating table … shouting and screaming but coming to the negotiating table,” Tsvangirai told thousands of supporters at a rally in the second city of Bulawayo.

The collapse of the talks is a disappointing setback that is likely to worsen the country’s economic and humanitarian woes.

“The biggest challenge we have is what has been left in this country. There is nothing. Zero,” Tsvangirai said.

Talks were mediated by former South African President Thabo Mbeki who brokered a Sept. 15 deal between Mugabe and Tsvangirai after the opposition narrowly won March parliamentary elections

The leaders have called for intervention from regional and African leaders. They will attend a meeting of the Southern African Development Community to be held in Swaziland on Monday.

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