HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Talks to try to find a solution to Zimbabwe’s political crisis continue in Harare Tuesday despite a downbeat assessment by President Robert Mugabe on the progress so far.

Asked by reporters when he left talks Monday whether the negotiations on a power-sharing government were going well, Mugabe said: "Not exactly" but said that negotiations would continue.

Mugabe, his rivals and South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is mediating, have been in closed-door talks at a Harare hotel since Sunday morning. The talks had been expected to end Sunday evening, and the repeated extensions indicate they are deadlocked.

The chief obstacle has been differences over what role, if any, Mugabe would have in a possible unity government. Main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said he could work with moderates from Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party,