Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe accused Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday of failing to act in the national interest after withdrawing his support for the country's fragile unity government, state media reported.

"You will always get people in any arrangement who are guided by little emotional thoughts and act in accordance with them and who would want things to go their way, and not the national way, and not the agreed way," Mugabe was quoted as saying by the Herald newspaper.

Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party said 16 October they would no longer cooperate with Mugabe's ZANU-PF in protest at the renewed detention on terror charges of the prime minister's aide, Roy Bennett.

While the former opposition leader has said he is not quitting the government, he has vowed only to return to the power-sharing deal once outstanding disputes are resolved including a row over key posts and a continued crackdown against his supporters.

Mugabe and Tsvangirai, longtime political rivals, are set to hold talks on Monday, the Herald reported.

The two men agreed to form a unity government in Feburary after a disputed presidential election in March 2008, which saw Mugabe handed victory in a one-man run-off.

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