Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will meet on Monday.

It is the first time the two men will come face to face since the Movement for Democratic Change said it would leave the cabinet. It follows the re-arrest of the MDC's Roy Bennett.

This will not be an easy meeting; a week and a half after the MDC pulled out of cabinet, political tensions are growing.

The MDC says up to 50 homes belonging to its supporters have been burnt down in Chiweshe, north of Harare, in what looks like reprisal attacks since the disengagement was announced.

On Saturday, two MDC MPs from Bulawayo were detained overnight in connection with the alleged theft of weapons from an army barracks in Harare.

Mugabe is understood to have requested the meeting but there is unlikely to be a breakthrough.

Tsvangirai says he wants full implementation of the power-sharing agreement.

Mugabe insists he has kept his side of the bargain and will not be relinquishing any more authority to the MDC.

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