Zimbabwe: Opposition party factions announce different national congress dates.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Zimbabwean TV on 30 January

[Newsreader] The Movement for Democratic Change [MDC] anti-Senate faction says its March national congress will determine which faction will lead the MDC opposition party. This was said by at a rally held in Harare East by MDC Harare East MP Mr Tendai Biti.

[Reporter] The Harare East MP in the House of Assembly, Mr Tendai Biti, said the wrangles that have rocked the party since October last year will be solved when a new MDC constitution is unveiled and a new leadership is put in place.

[Biti, in Shona] We want to come up with a new and better MDC. …