Kampala — President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday received a special message from President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

The Zimbabwe Foreign Affairs Minister, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi delivered the message at Museveni's country home in Rwakitura, according to a State House statement.

The minister briefed Museveni on the political, economic, food and health situation in Zimbabwe. The country has been facing an economic crisis, food shortage and a cholera outbreak. Inflation has shot up to over 10,000 per cent.

Museveni advised that the problem of inflation in Zimbabwe needs a macro-economic management approach such as tightening local currency by the Central Bank and limiting the cash flow liquidity.

He also advised said that the government of Zimbabwe should concentrate on a number of frontlines that are central to controlling the economy namely private sector formation and control of money supply, among others.

Museveni has been on several occasions defended Mugabe, saying the western world had not understood him and the Zimbabwean land problem.