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PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe returned home yesterday from New York where he attended a high level United Nations International Ebola Response Conference convened to mobilise resources for the recovery effort of West African nations devastated by the Ebola epidemic over the past two years. The President was accompanied by the First Lady Grace Mugabe, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa and other senior government officials.
President Mugabe attended the meeting in his capacity as chairman of the African Union and made an impassioned call at the conference for the international community to view the Ebola virus disease outbreak in parts of West Africa as a global threat.
He warned that no country was safe as long as the virus persisted in some parts of the world.
President Mugabe said pursuant to the principle of Africa providing African solutions to African problems, the leadership on the continent would hold another major conference later this month to work robust strategies to prevent a recurrence of the deadly outbreak and improve the resilience of affected countries.
He invited global partners who attended the recent UN Ebola conference to also come to the African Union meeting on July 20-21 in Malabo, Equitorial Guinea.
President Mugabe also challenged private investors on the continent to engage in more social responsibility programmes to complement the efforts of their host governments in capacity building and to ease the plight of affected communities.
President Mugabe was met on his arrival at Harare International Airport by his two Vice Presidents, Phelekezela Mphoko and Emmerson Mnangagwa, government ministers and service chiefs and senior government officials.
Online Reporter