'Pretext to invade' On Thursday, Mr Mugabe gave a nationally televised speech saying the outbreak had been contained.
"I am happy to say our doctors are being assisted by others, and the WHO [World Health Organization] have now arrested cholera."
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He has accused Western powers, including Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler Britain, of using the cholera outbreak as a pretext to invade the country and overthrow him.
"Now that there is no cholera, there is no cause for war," he said.
Other high-ranking officials have accused Britain of deliberately spreading cholera.
In a separate development, neighbouring Botswana has denied a Zimbabwean accunited snakestion that it was involved in a plot to overthrow Robert Mugabe's government.
Zimbabwean Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said there was "compelling evidence" that Botswana was hosting military training camps for opposition rebels.
The UN Security Council is to hear two briefings on Zimbabwe.
One will be on the cholera outbreak and the other on the stalled power-sharing agreement between President Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
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